This paper deals with the problem of oscillation of second order sublinear ordinary differential equations of the form (8) or of the more general formwhere a is a continuous real-valued function on an interval [to, a ) , t o >O, without any restriction on its sign and f i s a continuous real-valued function on the real line R with the sign property y f ( y ) > 0 for all y z 0 . It will be uupposed that f is continuously differentiable, except possibly at 0, and satisfies f'(y) ==-0 for all y f O and that f i s strongly sublinear in the sense that +O -0We restrict our attention to such solutions x of the differential equation (8) or of the equation (8) which exist on some interval of the form [t,, a ) , t,zto.The osciIIatory character will be considered in the usuaI sense, i.e. a continuous real-valued function defined on an interval [T, a) is said to be oscillatory it it has arbitrarily large zeros, and otherwise it is said to be nonoscillatory. Equation (8) or (3) is called oscillatory if all its solutions are oscillatory.