Show DONE NOTHING TET tec A clergyman engaged in catechising catechi sing a village school asked a young young wh athis god fathers and god rod mothers did for him 1 I dont know what they mean to do please your reverence rejoined the lad done nothing for me yeh yet we present to the people the deseret alphabet but llave nave not adopted any rules to bind the bastey taste judgment or preference ot of any such as it Is you have it iland and we are sanguine that the more it Is practised practiced and the more intimately the people become acquainted with it the more useful and beneficial it will appear the characters are designed to represent the sounds for which they stands stand and are EO so used ware where one stands slone alone the name of the character or letter Is the word it being the only sound heard we make no classification into bowels consonants 3 ac considering that to be of little littie or no consequence the student la Is therefore at liberty to deem all au the charach ers vowels or consonants or starters or stopper stoppers or whatever else he pleases in the ortho orthography raphy of the published examples websters pronunciation will be generally followed though it will be varied from when general usage demands ail all words having the same pronunciation will be spelled alike and the reader will have to depend upon the context tor for the meaning of such worda since the arrival of the matrices ac for casting the deseret alphabet it has been determined to adopt adoth er character to represent the sound of EW E w but nn until tit we tire prepared to cast that character the character characters sj will iiii be used to represent the sound of EW in NEW the characters lv are sounded as ag AI al in harb HAIB for which will c h one character will also be used so soon as it can be pr procured 0 cured |