Why did they switch from SOS to Mayday as the international distress call?
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They didn't. \n\nSOS is still the International signal in Morse code. "Mayday" is the international signal on voice radio.
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The Mayday callsign was originated in 1923 by Frederick Stanley Mockford (1897-1962) [2]. Whilst senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, Mockford was asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the word "Mayday" from the French m'aider.
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Personally, I noticed that they burned a Chinese restaurant, looted their own peoples businesses, set fire to police boxes and were brought under control by their own police. As I have said so many times before people tend to forget, like with the Afghans during the Russian occupation and with "Kirun". Speaking of "Kirun", the next time that England, or France, or all of Europe needs to be saved from occupation and extermination, as in WW1 and WW2, don't call on us, call on Iraq, Iran, North Korea,Vietnam, China, or oh my, Afghanistan. I'm sure that they will rush right over to lay their lives on the line for your countries.
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This summer, the Irish Republican Army promised to stop having violent confrontations with the United Kingdom.\n\nThis past spring, terrorists bombed some subways and a bus.
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Do they?  I'm not watching any english news reports so haven't noticed it.  Grammatically speaking, it is incorrect.  You use the preposition on before specific names of days or dates, like on Monday, or on May 25, but it does not sound right when you say on tomorrow or on yesterday(you can use for before tomorrow and yesterday).  Yeah, it can get annoying, but we have to accept that languages undergo a lot of changes, these also evolve or become extinct like living things, as it is mixed with other languages or when it is spoken by other ethnicities. There is the emergence of a distinctive language spoken in a certain region, like Singlish in Singapore or tag-lish in the Philippines, or maybe Hin-lish in India(they have their own english expressions that you can only hear from that place) Even for British and American English, there are marked differences and so with Australian.  And with the advancement of technology, it can get worse.  Just notice how the young generation seem to have their own english language and spelling.  People nowadays don't even bother with proper spellings.  As long as it sounds the same, it is okay, which can be another pet-peeve for some people.  Maybe in a few years, we'd be speaking in sms language.  \n\nFor the meantime, what you can do is to write to these TV stations and point out about their mistake and maybe they will rectify it.  But don't get too upset about it. It's the natural progression of things in this world.
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australia got hosed.  i didnt like that call.
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I can't find it in the dutch yellow pages (also not in the dutch white pages) or a dutch search engine.\nBut I'd say, it sounds more German than Dutch to me (although the german yellow pages don't help me out either).
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maybe they had a long day...i would call n complain  maybe they will dismiss the tickect :P
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Because it happened in America to Americans.\n\nMost of the new coverage I saw that day was by American stations.\n\nAmerica is like people, we're concerned with oursleves first, from there it spirals out- me, my family, my country, my world.\n\nWhat happened, is happening, in Africa is sad, but, I hate to say it, there is not here.
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Mayday is from the French "M'aidez" which means "Help me". It is used when calling on the radio for help, such as when a vessel or aircraft is in distress.
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Thats because changing the time has nothing to do with the seasons, its all to do with day length. It was actually abolished in the UK in the late 70's to see what would happen and it proved too dangerous...kids were going to school in the morning in total darkness during the winter.\nThey have it all over the world, its the same in the US, they just call it daylight saving time
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When you say "Todays" aside from being grammatically incorrect it implies that you ask one per day, this is the third one I've seen.\n\nBtw, that's d*mn funny, I don't think he'd lose his job.
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With all due respect, I am a person of colour and have had a reputation as a Left Wing Radical, back in the days, so it is no small matter that shocks me to here you suggest that '911' is something for Anglos to get over!\n\nFurther I cannot imagine it rational to suggest that anyone mere "get over", the violent loss of any life.  The loss of lives are to be take as both lessons, and mantles that challenge us to make the world a place where we all can walk as noble men and minds and yet do so respecting the lives that went into giving us the advances large or small that we can continue the struggle from.  And when I speak of that struggle, I do not mean any Black, White, or Asian, but the struggle of humanity itself!
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Since no one can understand this jumbed question I wil just answer another one:\n\nQ: "What is the international date line and why is it where it is?"\n\nA: "Learn how to type you jack@ss."
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Contrary to common belif, SOS does not stand for anything.  Many belive it stands for "save our ship" or "save our souls".  In fact, it was simply used because it is extremely easy to tap and interpret in morse code.  Dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit.  It replaces It's predecesor, CQD, around 1912.  People have since given it names like save our ship, but when it was origionally created, this was not the case.
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SOS is the commonly used description for the International Morse code distress signal (· · · - - - · · ·). This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard when it was included in the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906, and became effective on July 1, 1908.\n\nFrom the beginning, the SOS distress signal has actually consisted of a continuous sequence of three-dots/three-dashes/three-dots, all run together without letter spacing. In International Morse Code, three dots form the letter S, and three dashes make the letter O, so "SOS" became an easy way to remember the correct order of the dots and dashes. In modern terminology, SOS is a "procedural signal" or "prosign", and the formal way to show that there are no internal spaces when it is sent is to write it with a bar above the letters, i.e. SOS.\n\nIn popular usage, SOS became associated with phrases such as "Save Our Ship," "Save Our Souls," "Survivors On Ship," "Save Our Sailors" "Stop Other Signals" and "Send Out Sailors". However, these phrases were a later development, most likely used to help remember the correct letters—something known as a backronym.\n\nA backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that begins as an ordinary word, and is later interpreted as an acronym. The word "backronym" is a portmanteau of back and acronym, and was coined in 1983. The term is also used for a new set of words put to an existing acronym (e.g. "advanced research projects agency" → "arpa" → "address and routing parameters area").
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It might be short for "save our ship" or it might not be.  It could also be that the Morse Code characters for SOS are "... --- ..." which is very easy to send on a key and ery distinctive to hear.