Educational Annotations

Some of the comics have (more or less) informative annotations on a variety of topics. This is a list of the more educational ones, sorted by subject tags. Some annotations are listed under multiple subjects.

Comics tagged: lexicography

• 290 - "Orison"
• 524 - "Sprung"
• 576 - "Twerp"
• 673 - The Minotaur; Greek mythology; Knossos; Crete
• 930 - "Redlining"
• 1226 - "Pronto"
• 1351 - Accented characters in English; loan words
• 1402 - Minimalist art; abstract art; what is art?
• 1424 - Yeti; H.P. Lovecraft; Pluto; definition of a planet; Kuiper belt
• 1439 - "Geek"
• 1529 - "Scuttle"
• 1631 - "Rent" vs "rended"; "are none" vs "were none"
• 1682 - "Scion"
• 2010 - "Homage"
• 2237 - "Stuffing around"
• 2519 - "Suffer"
• 3292 - Analogies; puzzles
• 3370 - Ponds; pond life
• 3741 - "Balls-up"
• 3981 - "Port" and "starboard" sides of a ship
• 4051 - "Invoke"; alliteration versus assonance
• 4191 - Wages and price in 16th century England
• 4231 - Definition of piracy
• 4508 - Myth and folklore
• 4535 - "Hailing frequencies" in Star Trek
• 4652 - The title Ms

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