[Ads-l] Antedating of "Mr. Chad"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Below is an antedatinged of "Mr. Chad," the British equivalent of "Kilroy."  I took the antedating from Dave Wilton's brilliant website wordorigins.org.

Mr. Chad (OED 2 Dec. 1945)

1945 Gloucestershire Echo 6 Sept. 3/4 (Newspapers.com)

A local member of the Association of Army Radio Mechanics ... tells us that the president is the mysterious "Mr. Chad," well known to all Army and ex-Army radio mechanics.

Fred Shapiro


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