Show for the deseri desert news mews f the e deseret desere it alphabet the most striking advantages obtained by the adoption of the deseret alphabet is seen in n the introduction of a set of characters e expressing X certain sounds which when properly combined form the words we wish to express and in many instances fewer characters are required than are used by the old established system many instances might be adduced but a few selections will serve to show aa as a 08 D bauh bough 10 dough cough arp ar arb P enough laughter ac in the old system the characters used do not really express the words intended but our schools have taught us to accept a combination of certain characters as the correct spelling of a word and in many instances wo might with equal propriety use hieroglyphics to represent our ideas as to use many words spelt as they are at present the eye has been employed and not the ear but in the deseret alphabet the ear is the organ that is particularly ticul arly exercised in the combination of tha the sounds that form our words it takes a good share of a life time to bc be come well acquainted with the present system of elling spelling if a system can be established that all the necessary orthography can be learned in a third of the time the saved time can be employed in obtaining a knowledge of other languages or of storing the in m nd with a greater variety of useful information the merits of this system are silently removing the prejudices hitherto existing against it the formation of the characters which have appeared less preferable than the old roman to many are now becoming familiar to the eye and there are many intelligent persons among us who can rapidly read riad in this new alphabet the cobwebs of tradition are being removed from those who have haye fairly investigated it and its reception clearly argues that in a few years its adoption will lil ill ba be general and as it rises in the just estimation of the enlightened mind the inconsistencies of the present system will be seen in a corres r pon bonding ing ratio A B DESERET ALPHABET long short f T li L eth etil j 3 0 1 1 P y tile tilo 3 a ZI A a 0 b 8 s 8 0 a all ali j 1 9 t 6 z lu 4 a d D esh esli 0 0 r C che clio 8 zhe D 00 ls g to 4 tir nr J j o k Is 0 fy 8 OW c 0 ga th n U woo f P f h n v ye yo 6 v tj en eng ZD 0 in the following example when the camm came a letter occurs as for instance 1 I i la in TEARS instein of itt iti 1100 ole vie aau w 41 L vi anari mn ari agi dri art m 11 4 6 aha a hotl lot UZ so 80 W bwll M IM aboia 9 10 1096 84 3 YD Y 04 W savl sog fa W 0 am 46 46 6 6 CM emde va 75 16 yo T yie yle tie ING 6 prim frim nig 6 P 06 M H 46 olg 46 X y agg v 8 84 sri 4 1 fam 1 allf nyoua oli oti zag wag 84 04 va 3 TO YD ala lae aja ui uly y DI 81 LO 10 otis otas guso 63 3 YO Y 04 84 y his FIS csc 16 oah VII th i fog 6 erh cawa w 6 08 idu riad rilo rito 69 9 url sni 3 ja a 0 wa 10 90 kit wit tt 4 y W f fud ald UM TO insl b 1819 1817 ri ht 46 6 tl 16 pud fud f iad LAD an orl 1 36 04 63 3 TO YO 04 06 e 6 mel mei ral L TO YO jah jaa aji IS ig eg 46 6 oah gah i 63 36 6 C 84 4 63 TO 46 fa M an ima i 46 6 T fa erbis sog 36 04 63 3 TO 46 6 4 gris lg ig 16 6 81 art 11 uta usi ari 1 46 6 fi gohs dui dur G fa ya 63 3 04 mihl ia ian flag flaa M biffl 1 04 I IM tt h 6 6 90 d 8 |