How do you pronounce hobson-jobson?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌhɑb.sənˈdʒɑb.sən/.

hobson-jobson

/ˌhɑb.sənˈdʒɑb.sən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English

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Alternative letter-case form of Hobson-Jobson.

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"‘You must be moped to death in this dull place; and next week is Hobson Jobson. Can’t you throw some dust any how, in the eyes of the cat, and meet me and Philip somewhere, and so get away to the Tamacha.’"
"The dusky sons of Mohammed have been having a high old time down at the British India Company’s wharves during the past few days. [. . .] It was the great week of ‘Hobson-Jobson,’ as it is known out East, or the time of the Mohurram."
"Falaun, s. […] gradually, by a process of Hobson-Jobson, this was turned into Forlorn."
"Learned persons, especially those who know all about ‘Volksetymologie,’ whether under that imposing name, or more familiarly as ‘Hobson-Jobson,’ are advised to pass on to the next question."
"CARAFT, here is a delicious Hobson-Jobson from that veritable well of curious Anglo-Indianisms, the Madras Manual of Administration[.]"
"If the French for pun, calembour, derives (as Spitzer maintained) from "conundrum"; this points up well the at first puzzling effect of such devices. Caran d'Ache is in fact an intentional hobson-jobson."

Derived from adapting the call Hassan! Hussein! (حَسَن حُسَيْن (ḥasan ḥusayn), a lament for the grandsons of the Prophet Muhammad) to Hobson and Jobson, a pair of comic figures popular in the nineteenth century. Note that the conventional derivation from "Ya Hassan! Ya Hussein!" is incorrect. Coined in the linguistic sense by Yule and Burnell in their dictionary Hobson-Jobson.

Hobson-Jobsons (plural)

law of Hobson-Jobson Hobson-Jobsonism folk etymology phono-semantic matching Entries referring to at Wiktionary

approximation eggcorn folk etymology calque mondegreen phono-semantic matching Entries referring to at Wiktionary