Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 248
t. Now you will perhaps wonder how a picture of a ise, or a chicken, or a lion, could serve to represent a letter; but1 will see that the plan adopted was very simple, and very intclli-le. The main principle of it was this: to find out what alphabet-I sound is meant by the picture of any object,… … hand, it stands for T, that being the initial letter of lot. Or, mooladjmeans owl, and the picture of an owl represents \l. Of course, by this method, each letter of the alphabet could be rep-resented by any object of whose name it was the initial; but theEgyptians did not take any word, merely…
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