Harry's glasses.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 77512

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "maneelyfh" <maneelyfh at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, yellows at a... wrote:
> > In a message dated 8/15/2003 6:12:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> gbannister10 writes:
> > 
> > > Geoff:
> > > I hadn't. I tend to associate it more with "Abracadabra". 
> > > Also "cadaver" is not a word which is used much in the UK. 
> > > It's more of an American word. We stick to the more 
> genteel "corpse".
> > > :-)
> > 
> > Well, I don't know what Americans you know, but I'm from the US, 
> and we don't walk around saying "Cadaver, cadaver, cadaver."  <g>  
We 
> usually just say "Dead body." Or "Corpse." But cadaver *is* a word 
> for dead body, and I think JKR must have used this in her 
alteration 
> of "Abracadabra" to create her meaning.
> > 
> > Brief Chronicles
> 
> From the US:
> Cadaver is used mostly in medicine.  Medical examiners and 
> Pathologists refer to a dead person as a cadaver.

Geoff:
I was probably thinking medically in the back of my mind. If you said 
to a fair number of UK folk, "what's a cadaver?", a fair percentage 
wouldn't have met the word.