[LonePalm]

The "mayday" procedure word was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport, London. He had been 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 air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the term "mayday", the phonetic equivalent of the French m'aidez ("help me") or m'aider (a short form of venez m'aider, "come [and] help me"). The term is unrelated to the holiday May Day.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[grey_whiskers]

Speaking of "M'aidez"...

We are being conditioned to accept this as normal. The blowback will NOT be pretty.

Just an average day in NYC pic.twitter.com/vYyjiqfKk9— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) April 28, 2021

[Publius]

The term is unrelated to the holiday May Day.

I know that. I was merely pointing out a possible double meaning in a Q post.

[ichabod1]

It was a brilliant word because the May first holiday made it unforgettable.