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“Owing to the difficulty of distinguishing the letter "S" by telephone, the international distress signal "S.O.S." will give place to the words "May-day", the phonetic equivalent of "M'aidez", the French for "Help me."”
—"New Air Distress Signal," The Times [London], 2 Feb. 1923
