The Laurence Urdang–DSNA Award winner for 2008, and the last of such winners, is Traci Nagle, a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, for her project, "The Making of the Hobson-Jobson."  
	The subtitle for Hobson-Jobson is A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical, and Discursive. Dated 1886/1903, this work provides remarkable insight into the entry of Indian words into English, through the speech of British officers in colonial India. 
	Traci Nagle will use the Laurence Urdang–DSNA Award towards a research trip to England, to gather material on how this glossary was first put together (sources, selection of entries, commentary by the authors, etc.).  

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