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To: Salvation

“Mercy” is misericordia (no n).


3 posted on 11/17/2013 4:35:57 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

What do you want to bet it was the reporter?


4 posted on 11/17/2013 4:40:00 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: scrabblehack; Salvation

It’s a play on words.

Miseri -> Mercy

cordina -> a small rope...a small cord

Therefore, Misericordina means a “mercy cord”


5 posted on 11/17/2013 4:55:39 PM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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