[Ads-l] Antedating of "spad"
Hugo
hugovk at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jun 14 20:27:37 UTC 2018
Added to the OED in this quarter's update, "spad" (2001), short for
"special advisor".
Perhaps more initialismy than acronymy, there's a "SPAD Special Advisor" in
this Defense and Intelligence Abbreviations and Acronyms (1997) list.
https://archive.org/details/JMICDefenseIntelAcronyms.pdf
Hugo
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