2007-02-04 22:27:26 · 12 answers · asked by adelia 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Hi
Most commonly known as an international sign of distress : Save Our Soul. I think there was another international code for distress but was then changed at around the same period of the sinking of the Titanic.
2007-02-04 22:31:23 · answer #1 · answered by amal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, S.O.S. doesn't stand for anything, and you wouldn't have written it with periods/full stops. It's just SOS - a distress signal for ships out at sea.
It has to do with the fact that it was an easy signal to decipher when using telegraphs and Morse code using 3 dots 3 dashes and 3 dots. ...---...
Here's an article:
http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/060199tip6.htm
2007-02-05 06:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by Globetrotter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save Our Ship
2007-02-05 06:35:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means Save Our Ship
2007-02-05 06:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by DEMMY 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard both Save Our Souls and Save Our Ship.
2007-02-05 06:30:00 · answer #5 · answered by Some Guy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOS is an international Morse Code Distress Signal.
It stands for "Save Our Soul".In morse code it is written as "· · · - - - · · ·".
It was included in the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906, and became effective on July 1, 1908.
2007-02-05 07:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Save Our Souls....i tink..
2007-02-05 06:30:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
always thought it meant save or souls
2007-02-05 06:36:19 · answer #8 · answered by Larry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
originally it was save our ship. now people use it more of a symbol for help.
2007-02-05 07:05:47 · answer #9 · answered by orangegrrl55 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
save our souls :)
2007-02-05 06:43:59 · answer #10 · answered by gaindi 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋