Guide to Vocabulary. Thebook. 86,000 words in HTML from the OCR Translation {*style:<b>Cataclysms of the Earth <i>By Hugh Auchincloss Brown </i> </b>*} We are all aware that our earth is constantly changing. The Egyptian People's Papyrus. Special thanks to Neferkiki for this wonderful introduction So you want to write like an Egyptian, huh?
Well it took several years for aspiring scribes to learn how to do it, so for the sake of time we'll just cover the basics. Hieroglyphic writing is phonetic... That means symbols stand for certain sounds (unlike the English alphabet where some letters have many sounds or can be silent).