Alphabets are as simple as...

An interesting article describing why alphabets are shaped the way they are... An extract from the article -

Thus, the reason the letters of the alphabet are shaped as they are is to be in harmony with the mental machinery we have evolved to analyse the patterns of the natural world, not for ease of writing, said Dr Changizi.

Makes me wonder if the letters in the word describing a natural element have anything to do with the shape, color, light, sound etc. of that natural element. For example - do the letters of the word "flower" have anything to do with flowers that we see in nature.