I've been brushing up on my hieroglyphic alphabet, and then it dawned on me. There are parallels, no matter how extreme, between the hieroglyphs used in the writing of the ancient Egyptians and words used in the culture of today!
Sure, it doesn't apply to all the letters, but here's what I can recognize:
: A picture of a foot. Boots go on feet. Boot starts with B. B for boot!
: A picture of a hand. Hands have fingers, otherwise known as digits. D for digits!
: A picture of a jar. This, I know is a stretch, but at least it makes sense to me. In the French pronunciation of the alphabet, the G and the J are switched. So the G sounds like a J which is the first letter of jar. G (J) is for jar!
: A picture of a similar representation to a hieroglyphic house. A stretch, yes.. H is for house!
: A picture of a bird's feather, standing vertically. I is the only English capicalized letter that is a straight verticle line. In this, I see the vertical feather, and put two in two together. I is for verticleness of the feather!
: A basket. The word basket's most prominent feature is the harsh sounding K. K is for basket!
: A lion. Need I say more?
: Water. We all know about the greatest river in all the world, the Nile, right? N is for Nile!
: A mouth. I, being a reader of http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.com/
, am familiar with the Maddoxian principal of the best form of being in the universe, the pirate. What is a pirate stereotypically known for saying? "Aarrgh!" R is for "Aarrgh"!
Questions? Comments? Suicide pacts?