Different kind of alphabet...

I suppose I should explain here that the above is mostly for the kids and for fun. My hieroglyphic dictionary (yes, there is one!) has over six hundred hieroglyphs in its index, and there may even be more than that, depending upon the various alternatives. You can't boil all that down into a 26-symbol equivalent to our English alphabet.

These hieroglyphs also contain modifiers and determinatives that work somewhat like our adjectives or adverbs in altering usage and meanings, and if you've looked at real examples, then you know that mostly, these hieroglyphs were written in a specific pattern, arranged more or less like a four-paned window. And the "dictionary" is phonetic in its arrangement, not like our own. So please don't think my foolishness up above is really "writing like a Egyptian". It most certainly isn't.