There is a different, much older definition of wot. It used to mean to know: "I wot not what it might be." "A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot." See http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem239.html for the entire poem. Cheers! Mia Andrew Barton wrote: >'Wot' in Britain is a lower-class term, most often seen in the caption to a >'Chad' - a stylised cartoon of a face looking over a wall, with the caption >'Wot, no X?' where X could be any commodity. It originated in the 1940's >as a comment on wartime shortages, and is still sometimes seen. The >spelling suggests a Cockney pronunciation of 'what'. > >Adding 'What?' to the end of a sentence is a British upper-class >affectation, and I'd have thought unrelated. > >How it got into a Calvin and Hobbes strip I don't know. > >Andrew > > >