“MAYDAY” in Morse Code
−− ·− −·−− −·· ·− −·−−
A curiosity: MAYDAY is the VOICE distress call (from the French m’aider, "help me"), created for radiotelephony precisely because SOS is awkward to shout. In Morse you send SOS; on a microphone you say Mayday. Here is what the word itself looks like in code.
Letter by letter
M −− A ·− Y −·−− D −·· A ·− Y −·−−
Reading it: a dot (·) is one unit long, a dash (−) is three. Letters are separated by a three-unit silence — written as a space — and words by seven units, written as a slash. Want to hear it slower or flash it as light? Open it in the morse code translator.
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