{"id":43722,"date":"2014-07-21T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/the-mormon-alphabet.html"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:04:41","slug":"the-mormon-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/the-mormon-alphabet.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mormon Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"
I'd never heard that Brigham Young had sponsored an alternative "Desert Alphabet" for the LDS settlements in Utah. \u00a0Interesting.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Brigham Young\u2019s Short-Lived, Experimental Mormon Alphabet<\/a>
\n Catherine Falzone, cataloger at the New-York Historical Society, recently\u00a0blogged about\u00a0three books printed in the Deseret Alphabet, a 19th-century experiment sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.\n <\/p>\n

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I'd never heard that Brigham Young had sponsored an alternative "Desert Alphabet" for the LDS settlements in Utah. \u00a0Interesting.\ufeff Brigham Young\u2019s Short-Lived, Experimental Mormon Alphabet Catherine Falzone, cataloger at the New-York Historical Society, recently\u00a0blogged about\u00a0three books printed in the Deseret Alphabet, a 19th-century experiment sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 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