On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 11:22 AM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> John Jenkins wrote:
>>
>>
>> Me, I'm miffed that Deseret didn't even rate a mention in _World's
>> Writing
>> Systems_. (Of course, maybe the fact that all existing Deseret fonts are
>> truly pathetic had something to do with that.) :-(
>
> Or maybe we never heard of it.
>

Not surprising. It is moderately obscure.

> I thought the angels took back the golden plates after Smith translated
> them.

Wrong script. The DA was an attempt to introduce a phonetic alphabet for
English, pushed mostly by Brigham Young and mostly in the 1850's and 1860'
s.

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