Amanda Cadabra and The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr by Holly Bell (best english novels for beginners .txt) 📕

conventions

—ise for words like surprise, realise

—ize for words like surprize, realize

—or for words like colour, honour

—our for words like color, honor

—tre for words like centre, theatre

—ter for words like center, theater

Mr Mrs Dr

Mr. Mrs. Dr.

Double consonants for words

like traveller, counsellor

M3

Highway going South West from London

Battenberg

Cake made of pink and yellow

diagonal squares, wrapped in

Marzipan

Biscuit

Cookie

Overalls

Coveralls

Boot

Trunk

Car Park

Parking lot

Chips (food)

French fries

Corner shop

Small grocery store

Cornish Clotted

Cornish clotted cream - thick cream

Cornish pasty

Disk of puff pastry filled with meat

and vegetables then folded and

sealed at the edges.

Crumpet

Cake with holes in, served toasted

with butter

Cuppa

Cup of tea

Curtains

Drapes

Different from

Different than

Eyrie

Aerie

Fridge

Refrigerator

Garden

Yard

Gingernut

Hard (like a nut but not containing

any) ginger biscuit

Grey

Gray

Grammar School

For students ages 11-18 who have

passed an entrance examination

Head

Principal

Jam roly-poly

A flat layer of suet pudding, spread

with jam and rolled up

Jewellery

Jewelry

The Metropolitan Police Service,

Policing London

policing London

Minibus

Van, minicoach seating 8 - 30 people

Mobile phone

Cell phone

Momentarily

For a moment

M4

M class road - Expressway, Highway

On the pull

attempting to attract someone romantically

Practise

Practice

Pother

Upset, in a turmoil

Pavement

Sidewalk

Pub

Quiet, family friendly, coffee-shop

style bar

Public school

Private school

Grammar school

Saffron cake

Traditional Cornish cake made with

fruit, saffron and warm spices.

Scone

Smaller, lighter and fluffier than

the US scone, served with

cream and jam

Shortcake

Crunchy sweet cookie

Solicitor

Lawyer

Tin

Can

Torch

Flashlight

Van

Delivery truck

Victoria sandwich

Sponge cake with jam and cream filling

Cornish Accent and Dialect

Awright?

All right?

Dreckly

At some point

Zackly

Exactly

I'llItellywot

I will tell you what

Me ’andsome

Unisex term of endearment

Me luvver

Unisex term of endearment

Up North

North of the Tamar River

Emmet

Tourist

Cornish

Bian

Baby, small

Pur

Very

A Note About Accents and Wicc’yeth

One or two of the villagers have a Cockney accent indicated by the missing ‘h’ at the beginning of words such as ‘hello’ becoming ‘’ello’. There are also Cornish characters whose accents have been rendered as closely as possible using English spelling conventions.

Wicc’yeth, is a magical language peculiar to the world of Amanda Cadabra. If you are curious about the meaning of individual spell words, you will find a glossary at http://amandacadabra.com/wiccyeth/ and Amelia’s Glossary with Pronunciation.

Any questions? Ask Holly on [email protected]