Today in Top Story: Hannah Harris explains the meaning behind the distress call “Mayday.”
“S.O.S.” was already used in telegraph communication between boats. But the three-letter call was easily misheard over radio. The official distress signal was changed in 1923 to “Mayday.” The word comes from m’aidez, French for “Help me.”
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