# English as She Is Spoke — Character guide

> Key figures in English as She Is Spoke by Pedro Carolino.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): This narrator presides over a collection of comic anecdotes and dialogues, translating (or mistranslating) Portuguese wit into English of spectacular wrongness. The presiding tension is between earnest instructional inte
- [Senhor Pedro Carolino](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/characters/senhor_pedro_carolino.md): Carolino presents himself in the preface as a careful pedagogue, offering dialogues, proverbs, and a vocabulary for Portuguese and Brazilian youth eager to master English. His flaw is magnificent: he cannot actually spea
- [Cuttler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/characters/cuttler.md): Cuttler moves through the book's conversational set pieces as a man of trade — fitting coats, discussing cloth by the ell, haggling over twenty franks. His world is one of small frictions: a garment that pinches the stom
- [Swiss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/characters/swiss.md): A character referenced in the book's anecdotes.
- [John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/characters/john.md): A character appearing in familiar dialogues and letters.
- [Plato](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/characters/plato.md): A historical philosopher referenced in the book's proverbs.

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