----- Original Message -----
From: Alan S. Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SaF] word-a-day with cartoon
> On 8 Dec 99, 11:05, Soundara Rajan wrote:
>
> > Word-a-day cartoon strip, which used to appear every day in our local
> > newspaper, helped a lot to improve the vocabulary of my children when
> > they were young. These appear no more in our newspapers. Could someone
> > help me to find these online? Thanks in advance.
>
> I have my doubts this is what you are seeking, but it is the only
> syndicated vocabulary comic strip appearing in newspapers, that I have
> thus far found:
>
> VOCONs
>
> http://syndicate.com/comicstrip.html
>
> Outside of that, let me recommend two excellent "Word-A-Day" type
> sites, albeit they do not seem to feature a comic strip. They do have
> e-mail mailing lists to which you can subscribe.
>
> http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
>
> http://www2.parlez.com/wotd-aux/
>
> Merriam-Webster and Oxford English Dictionaries, each have their own
> word-of-a-day pages and you may wish to visit those two sites, as well:
>
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
>
> http://www.oed.com/wordofday.htm
Another one is Jesse's Word of the Day:
http://www.randomhouse.com/jesse/
Frank Bohan
