Vatican Jesus Medal Recalled After Embarrassing Misspelling

[cbayer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/10/vatican-jesus-medal_n_4080403.html

By Yasmine Hafiz
Posted: 10/10/2013 4:59 pm EDT | Updated: 10/11/2013 3:08 am EDT

Whoops! Looks like the Vatican needs spell-check.

A medal commissioned to commemorate the pontificate of Pope Francis has been abruptly recalled after the Vatican realized that it had misspelled the name of someone fairly important to the Roman Catholic Church.

That person is Jesus.

Or "Lesus," according to the papal medal.



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[denverbill]

1. Would have been funnier if they'd put Jebus, but pretty funny anyway.

[rug]

2. Absit omen.

[snagglepuss]

3. I would like there to be an investigation as to who bought the four coins that have this error as

there is no doubt these coins are now valuable. Are there any connections between the purchasers and those responsible for the error? I ahve a hard time believing that this error wasn't deliberate.

[enlightenment]

4. Since Latin doesn't have a "J"

they probably just picked up the "L" instead of the "I". I doubt it was deliberate.

[cbayer]

5. Agree that those 4 coins are going to have a very high value.

I'm not sure I would jump to it being a conspiracy, but I sure wish I had one.

[pinto]

6. Oooops! (aside) To be consistent it ought to be Iesus.

Ancient Latin didn't have the letters J and U. I and V were used instead.


In ancient Latin there was no J or U. I and V were used.















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[Lithos]

7. I think that's what happened

Someone's "I" was sloppy and someone read it as an "L"

[cbayer]

8. Hello Lithos! How have you been?

So nice to see you here.

[dimbear]

9. Not trying to be snippy, but that's church Latin. Dead giveaway: the word ait. n/t

[pinto]

10. "ait" means "he says". I just noticed the use of V for U, as in pvblicanvm.

The period use would be consistent with the use of I for J. See your point, though. I suppose church Latin is from medieval time, after J and U were added to the Latin alphabet.