Dictionary of Middle Egyptian in Gardiner Classification Order by Paul Dickson

As I began trying to learn to read the hieroglyphic writing of Middle Egyptian I was frustrated that all of
the available dictionaries were organized around the approximate sounds of the words instead of their
spelling, as is used in most other dictionaries.
When I learned that all of the raw material was available for making my own dictionary, organized the
way I wanted, I set out on this project.
The definitions are organized in order by the Gardiner Codes of the glyphs that make them up. This
system, developed by Alan Gardiner in the early part of the 20th century, groups the symbols into families
according to what they look like.
A good way to use this dictionary is not to print it on paper but to leave it in your computer as a PDF file
so that you have the full use of the SEARCH facilities of your PDF reader. With that you can look for
words in the English definitions, or in the phonetic pronunciation guides. For the latter it helps to check
the box for case-sensitive searching, since case is important in the MdC notation.