SOS
pronunciation
How to pronounce SOS in British English:
UK [ˌes əʊ ˈes]
How to pronounce SOS in American English:
US [oʊ]
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- Noun:
- an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code
Word Origin
- SOS
- 1910, from International Morse code letters, chosen arbitrarily as being easy to transmit and difficult to mistake. Not an initialism (acronym) for "save our ship" or anything else. Won out over alternative suggestion C.Q.D., which is said to mean "come quickly, distress," or "CQ," general call for alerting other ships that a message follows, and "D" for danger. SOS is the telegraphic distress signal only; the oral equivalent is mayday.
Example
- 1. She joined the rock band and began going to sos almost everyday .
- 2. I 'm callin sos give me some help .
- 3. Airsea rescue picked up the downed airman after receiving an sos message .
- 4. Question by tinny : can I travel to malta with the sos passport ?
- 5. For help about how to use sos , use the ! Help command described in the following procedure .