Irreantum (LDS movement)

The pronunciation of this place name has sparked some interest among Mormon scholars, particularly historians focusing on the history of the Latter Day Saints.

[4] Sources indicate a significant difference between the contemporary common and preferred pronunciation and that of the early Utah settlement period[5] for many names and terms from The Book of Mormon.

[7] The Deseret alphabet is a writing system created between 1847 and 1854 in Utah, commissioned by the highest church leaders, including Brigham Young.

[8] There are records from those involved in the process known by Latter Day Saints as the translation of The Book of Mormon, shedding light on how Smith originally dealt with unfamiliar words.

[12] During the process referred to by the Latter Day Saints as the translation of The Book of Mormon, Oliver Cowdery, one of the scribes assisting Joseph Smith, wrote the word in its currently known form.

[21] This term appears in the sacred Mormon scripture at the end of the description of the eight-year journey of Lehi, his family, and their companions through the wilderness.

It has been openly acknowledged that these efforts cannot yield definitive results due to the complete lack of mentions in independent source materials.

[27] Attempts to situate it within a specific geographical context have a long history, extending back to the first systematic encyclopedic works associated with this part of the Mormon canon.

[30] Linguists associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have extensively considered the etymology of the name of this area.

The assumption leaned toward it occurring during the creation of its English version, thus attributing to it a inspired origin, positing within the framework of theology that God conveyed it to Joseph Smith.

He particularly pointed to the influences of Freemasonry and the political activity of anti-Masonry, aspects that were simultaneously present in Joseph Smith's environment during the time when this text was being developed and prepared for publication.