Chapter Introductory Remarks of Introductory Remarks by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

exceptions, to scientific precision in transliteration, I feel much more inclined than formerly to sympathise with my friends Sir William Muir and General Maclagan, who have always favoured a large and liberal recognition of popular spelling in such names. And when I see other good and able friends following the scientific Will-o’-the-Wisp into such bogs as the use in English composition of sipáhí and jangal, and verandah—nay, I have not only heard of bagí, but have recently seen it—instead of the good English words ‘sepoy,’ and ‘jungle,’ ‘veranda,’ and ‘buggy,’ my dread of pedantic usage becomes the greater.¹⁶

For the spelling of Mahratta, Mahratti, I suppose I must apologize (though something is to be said for it), Marathi having established itself as orthodox.