Re: [www.keralites.net] What does SOS stand for ???
S.O.S means Si Opus Sit---it is a Greek word- the meaning of this is--whenever required.when doctors are prescribing medicines they usually mention SOS in their prescriptions to give direction to the pharmacist to mention that the patient can take these medicines whenever required ,particularly analgesics-(which relieves the pain)
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Manoj Kumar.G.S.
--- On Sun, 29/8/10, M. Nandakumar <nandm_kumar@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: M. Nandakumar <nandm_kumar@yahoo.com>
Subject: [www.keralites.net] What does SOS stand for ???
To: "Keralites" <Keralites@YahooGroups.com>
Date: Sunday, 29 August, 2010, 11:11 AM
In popular usage to this day, the letters SOS (no periods) are commonly believed to be an acronym for:
Save Our Ship
Save Our Souls
Sink Or Swim
These are termed 'backronyms,' as explained below, and came into popular use AFTER SOS went into effect. In actuality, and as originally intended when SOS was introduced in 1908, the letters have no meaning.
SOS is a Morse "procedural signal" or "prosign." As the SOS signal is a 'prosign', its respective letters have no inherent meaning per se. In the simplest terms, SOS is a 'SIGNAL' indicating distress and the need for help, and not an acronym or abbreviation.
After SOS was first used by the steamship Arapahoe in 1909 (not the Titanic in 1912 as many people believe), people applied their own meanings to the letters. The most popular ones: "save our ship" and "save our souls." These are correctly termed 'bacronyms.'
'SOS' was chosen because the three dots, three dashes, three dots are easy to transmit and not easily confused with other letters by the sender or recipients. With the advent of radios on ships beginning in the 1920s, 'Mayday' became, and still is, the International Distress Signal, but SOS served its purpose, for a while.
Bacronym: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
Courtesy: Yahoo
Nandakumar
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