Re: What's a SPAD (humour) - Was Signaller causes SPAD

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"B." <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au> wrote in message
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> Ronald BESDANSKY <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in message
>
> > Strictly, "SPAD" should be replaced by "SPAS" in this
> > country, but that term has unfortunate (schoolchild)
> > derogatory implications.
>
> I was under the impression that even the Poms have got in their rulebook
> that the aspect displayed when the light is red is 'Stop' not 'Danger'.
So
> SPAD should be SPAS in England too.  The question becomes, what is the
'Red'
> aspect called in the NSW rulebook thesedays - 'Danger' or 'Stop'.

Stop.