No, “Zephyr” is not just that lame car that Lincoln produced. Did you know that Zephyr means “a gentle breeze“? I didn’t until I listened to Comic Vocab.

2 good friends of mine, Suraj and Chaitanya, came up with a killer idea on helping people improve their vocabulary through comedy. When I first heard the idea I was skeptical. However, after drilling into the idea with them a bit more, I believe the product definitely has great potential. The question I asked myself was how I would go about improving my vocabulary? Read an SAT book? Read a dictionary? Subscribe to “word of the day” emails?

The premise behind Comic Vocab is that it helps you build your vocabulary better than any other method since it keeps you interested through the use of “clean comedy”, which in turn helps maximize word retention. I’m definitely biased since this product was made by my 2 friends, but I’m never shy to rip on any product someone asks me to review. It’s truly a great product — if you’re at all interested in beefing up your vocabulary in a really easy way, this is the product to buy.

The cool part of their project is that they produced in on the side while working full-time at Microsoft, sourcing all their creative talent from Craig’s list. Talk about a web 2.0 success story!

The easiest way for me to listen to it was in my car on my drives to work since that’s where I feel I waste most of my time during the day. What better way to use 30-40 mins a day? I was able to listen to it in chunks over several days on my back-and-forth commute. Many of their jokes on the CD made me laugh out loud making it for a really easy listen. You can check out some of their work on their samples page.

Imagine being able to bust out the word “prolix” at your next family dinner or at the bar next to your future wife? The product is available directly through their website at http://www.comicvocab.com as well as on Amazon.