On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:42:46AM -0400, James A. Landau wrote: > > "Ops" as a verbal abbreviation for "Operations" goes back a ways. In World > War II [...] I look forward to Fred Shapiro ringing in, but in the meantime I'll point out that OED2 has a 1916 example of _ops_ (in the phrase "night ops") from Wilfred Owen. Jesse Sheidlower OED