# Cuttler — English as She Is Spoke character guide

> Cuttler in English as She Is Spoke by Pedro Carolino.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0005-familiar-dialogues

## Snapshot

A tailor (or 'cuttler') who buttons, pinches, and measures his way through the dialogue scenes, complaining that sleeves lack wideness and razors need combing.

## Who they are

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 stomach, a customer who won't cheapen, a barber who is also a newsmonger. He matters because his mundane transactions give the mangled English somewhere to land, turning everyday errands into quiet disasters of language.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_professional_

Cuttler seems to be a servant or employee who interacts with the narrator in a service or duty capacity.

## In the story

### [Familiar Dialogues](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/chapters/familiar-dialogues)

Referenced indirectly in the anecdote of the avaricious cuttler, though not directly appearing.

### [Anecdotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/chapters/anecdotes)

An avaricious rich man who feigns illness at inns to avoid expenses, roasts a herring with straw and candle, and carries his own bread and water.

### [Idiotisms and Proverbs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/english_as_she_is_spoke_se/chapters/idiotisms-and-proverbs)

Referenced in the proverb 'Which like Bertram, love hir dog' (Bertram is a variant of Cuttler).

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