AWOL

Dave Wilton dave at WILTON.NET
Sat Mar 15 00:44:07 UTC 2003


I've seen various claims that the acronym "AWOL" actually dates to 1863 and
the US Civil War. Does anyone have an actual citation of this? Or at least a
cite that actually takes it to WWI (the OED only has 1921)?



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