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When Brigham Young Got A Mormon Alphabet

WORDS Posted: July 21, 2014 11:49 pm

“In 1853, after [George D.] Watt taught shorthand to Brigham Young, the Mormon leader commissioned the British clerk to create a 38-character ‘Deseret alphabet.’ The phonetic alphabet was meant to simplify the spelling of English words. Watt said … ‘An alphabet should contain just as many letters as there are simple-pure atoms of sound.'”

WORDS Published: 07.21.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 07.21.14

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