Sixty-eight is 'a zuppa cotta, the cooked soup. The adjective matters, the way it does at 45: not soup, soup that is ready.
For anyone who has read the rest of the board it lands differently once you notice what else is filed here. The printed dictionary puts fame, hunger, on 68 too.
- 68
- 'A zuppa cotta
- the cooked soup
- Row 61–70 of the tabellone
Where the figure comes from
No source.
Other things filed on 68
In Neapolitan life
Neapolitan soup is a specific and freighted thing. Zuppa 'e cape 'e pesce, fish-head soup, and the Easter minestra maritata are the food of a city that made a cuisine out of what was left. A square for soup already cooked is not a neutral image in that context, though no compiler ever said so.
68 in the smorfia — frequently asked
The board qualifies its food. Soup that is ready is a different image from soup in general, and the smorfia works on exactly that kind of detail.
Hunger, in the printed dictionary, on the same square as the soup that is ready. The compilers did not always separate the wish from the thing.