Oh what a tangled web we weave.


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abbreviation Very Special Old Pale, a kind of brandy

(according to the parallel VSOP thread, that's not quite right)

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I’ve seen it used ways, ‘special’ and ‘superior’. I suspect it originated as ‘superior’ and then erroneously became ‘special’. Just one man’s wild stab in the dark.

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