Harry's glasses.

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No: HPFGUIDX 77534

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.

Me again:  In the US news sources such as the evening news, and news 
papers usually just say "body" as in a body was found floating in the 
river..... 
Fran