Like, SOS!!! they put it on islands where someone is stranded? What does it stand for?
2006-07-20 08:30:11 · 15 answers · asked by Microsoft Sam 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
save our ship
dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot in morse code
it's a distress call, like mayday for an aircraft
2006-07-20 08:33:28 · answer #1 · answered by Nunya B 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The letters SOS originally didn't mean anything. These letters where chosen as an emergency distress signal because they were very easy to transmit using the morse code, which was how people from different places communicated (like 2 ships) back then. Later on, people wondering what SOS stood for invented their own definitions for it, thinking it was an acronym. "Save our ship" and "save our souls" are the 2 most popular of these supposed definitions.
2006-07-22 00:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by super_drive2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the International Code of Signals, the flags signal SOS was used by vessels in distress and requiring assistance, upon the high seas. There were other signals also. When Radio-telegraphy was first introduced as a means of communication by ships at sea, the same letters were used - in Morse code - which group of signals consisted of three shorts, three longs and three shorts. SOS in some obscure way was given the meaning of "Save our Souls" perhaps as an aid to memory ?
Eventually Radio Telegraphy gave way to Radio Telephony and the voice signal of distress became "Mayday" repeated three times. "Mayday" being the phonetic pronounciation of the French word "m'aidé" which translates to "Help me".
2006-07-20 08:46:08 · answer #3 · answered by colin d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It actually dosen't stand for anything. It came into use in the early days of radio as a distress call, not because it meant anything in particular, but because of the very recognizable characters in Morse Code. Later it became known as "Save Our Ship".
S = three dots, O = three dashes.
Combined in a row they sound like: da da da dit dit dit da da da
2006-07-20 08:37:42 · answer #4 · answered by luckyaz128 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save Our Ship, or Save Our Soul
In Morse code, it's 3 short 3 long 3 short (or 3 dots 3 dashes 3 dots), easy to remember, easy to send, easy to understand.
2006-07-20 08:36:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it means Save Our Ship. Probably put on islands bc sailor will recognize it as maritime code or something.
2006-07-20 08:34:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means; Save our ship.
2006-07-20 22:38:03 · answer #7 · answered by Ken W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save our souls.
2006-07-20 08:33:27 · answer #8 · answered by angelo26 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
save our ship used for sinking ships
2006-07-20 08:33:51 · answer #9 · answered by Walt C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sos means save our souls, or so says my fiancee who was in the army.
2006-07-20 08:34:34 · answer #10 · answered by sslowbliss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋