Red and Rover by Brian Basset for April 17, 2020

From my non-Webster’s dictionary (Amer. Herit. 4th Ed.):

A dealer in rare books.

Never saw it before.

Red and Rover watching educational TV? Bring on the cartoons!

Well, that explains a lot.

Now that makes sense!

It looks like they ripped off a joke from Garfield. In that strip the word was “Sasquatch”: https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1982/05/01

I’ll admit it….. I had to look up the word….

oh, i though it was a drug company advertising a new drug, with those weird names the give them.

And so, we still refer to our dictionaries -

I like it when I learn new words from the comics.

I looked it up too. But I can see why Webster’s Dictionary would be inclined to use a one word ad! So proficient!

i have a 1891 edition of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, most likely picked up at yard sale years ago

So much TV watching will serve no purpose, Red, Stop it!

I just spoke to Wordgirl and now I’ve got a word for them as well. And it is antidisestablishmentarianism.

Wow a name I haven’t heard in years…

As in, “Time to run a few words up the ol’ bibliopole.”