[Ads-l] Antedating of "spad"

[Laurence Horn]

Calling a SPAD a SPAD...

> On Jun 14, 2018, at 4:27 PM, Hugo <hugovk at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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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