The internet is filled with things. Here is one of them.
How India changed the English language2023 Oct 16
I consider myself an armchair enthusiast of etymology – always looking words up to see where they came from. But this article from the BBC, put out in 2015 to promote the new edition of a 1886 book Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India (a "classic work of Victorian scholarship" according to Oxford University Press, the publisher), delves into many word histories that spring from parts the world I'd never suspected.
I consider myself an armchair enthusiast of etymology – always looking words up to see where they came from. But this article from the BBC, put out in 2015 to promote the new edition of a 1886 book Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India (a "classic work of Victorian scholarship" according to Oxford University Press, the publisher), delves into many word histories that spring from parts the world I'd never suspected.