[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by Chapel-Hill-Coug

Hmm, either 3 or 4 summers ago (can't remember which at the moment), on campus at the Y.

This is what I read:

A more recent study of the original and printer's manuscripts of the Book of Mormon shows that the words that are italicized in the King James Version of Isaiah were usually included in the manuscripts, but that they were dropped prior to the actual printing of the Book of Mormon.12 This argues against Wright's suggestion that Joseph Smith knew that the italicized words represented material not reflected in the Hebrew but necessary for the flow of the passage in English. It seems clear that the italics, the centerpiece of Wright's argument, did not influence Joseph Smith in making modifications to the biblical text. Based on the new data, we cannot know who decided to remove or modify those italicized words. It could have been Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, or even the typesetter.

http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=review&id=472