The Letter P in Spoon is a Picture: I Want to Meet Your English Teacher

The alphabet is pictorial. Long ago, the inventors of many of our vocabulary words kept the secret that the letters were pictures. The letter P in spoon is a picture of a spoon. The S in string is a picture also. All of the letters in soup are pictures also, see if you can figure out how they add together to make a cup of soup, with a spoon resting in it.