Yesterday I looked at the introduction to the King James Version of the Bible that the LDS Church uses.
I was surprised to notice that the occurrence of italicized letters was kind of arbitrary, which is often the case, in my experience, when the publishers are hiding messages.
According to my big old dictionary, italicized disconnected typeface can also be labeled "cursive", which when applying the "v" step, turns into "iesruc", which is "I's are U's." So I decided to use a cipher in which I=U.
I did a doubles-cancel operation on all the italicized words in the preface: BY THE GRACE OF GOD England Sion Occidental Star Elizabeth Sun Christendom English tongue England.
That gave me "YFZRMISLD." Applying the 26-letter alphabet ring circle where I=U, I get "EXDLQUKRZ." Applying the "z" step, I get "EXDLQUKR." Applying the "x" step, I get a dyad (i.e., two) solutions, one a taunt and the other a reference to a food/science secret:
"ER KUQLD" which appears to be calling someone with the initials "ER" a cuckold, i.e., a man whose wife is having children with a different man.
"EDL QUKR" which appears to be a reference to cooking with an "EDL" utensil or process. According to my old dictionary, the only "edel" process is an "edeleanu process" that uses sulfur dioxide, which frequently shows up in foods that I've experienced otherwise unexplainable weight loss/control from.
I dug into publishers of the King James Bible, and the cuckold taunt appears most likely to be referring to the husband (initials "RE") of Sarah Baskerville, a live-in housekeeper whose husband disappeared and who then married her employer John Baskerville, printer of the 1763 folio version of the King James Version.
[Update 9:55 pm, 12/16/2024: Here are photos of the two mentioned definitions from my old, huge dictionary:
Who knew that cursive could be nonjoining letters, too? Very interesting.]
