Isn't the acronym "SPIC" now outlawed as it upset's the PC brigade? It is banned on the railway you have to say "Site Person In Charge"
Depends where you are in EASA Land. SPIC has no negative connotations in Germany hence we still use the term. If I also refer to Annex to ED Decision 2011/016/R - Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material to Part-FCL, under abbreviations it lists PICUS (Pilot in command under Supervision) and SPIC (Student PIC).
Therefore my feeling is that any attempt to have the term SPIC outlawed could have been the attempts of a person trying to show how "politically correct" they are. If the term SPIC was only for national use, perhaps a case could be made for it's replacement by P/UT or similar but if we follow the proposal to it's logical conclusion, we'd have to look at changing other abbreviations such as those used for Full Flight Simulator, where the abbreviation generally has a completely different connotation than we would be using it for.....