Burmese Days

With “Burmese Days” of George Orwell, the reading flow stops at every italicized word like longyis, ingyi, gaungbaung, tuktoo, durwan and kit-kit though I guessed right about tuktoo. Even words like “shikoings,” not italicized, troubled me. And this: “The civilians in Burma had a comforting theory that ‘sticking by one’s job’ (wonderful language, English! ‘Sticking by’ – how different from ‘sticking to’) was the truest patriotism…”