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Mayday! May Day! Bealtaine! Posted by on May 1, 2011

(le Róislín) Bhuel, not exactly!  “Mayday” as an emergency call comes from the French “(Venez) m’aider” (Come help me!)* and the Irish for “mayday” as an SOS remains “mayday,” so we have “córas mayday” (a mayday system) for sailing, etc.  In fact, “SOS” also remains exactly the same in Irish, as an internationally understood abbreviation. …

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