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How to pronounce mayday in English?

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Type of distress call, distress signal

Examples of mayday

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A mayday call from the boat named the Black Magic was picked up at 1 a.m. today.
From the delawareonline.com
The plane landed safely in Paris six hours and 40 minutes after the mayday call.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Mayday has many clients in the legal, accountancy and other professional fields.
From the eadt.co.uk
The initial mayday put the vessel just eight nautical miles from the Java coast.
From the smh.com.au
The Coast Guard station on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., heard bits of a mayday call.
From the thenewstribune.com
Mayday signals must only be used where there is grave and imminent danger to life.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They had confirmed that one of the voices recorded on a mayday call was Otremsky's.
From the thenewstribune.com
Based on a garbled mayday call, searchers began looking off Ontario's Turkey Point.
From the dispatch.com
The mayday calls were made in work hours while he was driving his employer's truck.
From the themercury.com.au
More examples
  • An internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider)
  • Mayday is a band from Omaha, Nebraska, on the Saddle Creek Records label, led by Ted Stevens, also of Cursive and Lullaby for the Working Class.
  • Mayday is the debut album from New York hardcore punk band, Awkward Thought. It was released in June, 2000 on Blackout Records.
  • Mayday is an emergency code word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. It derives from the French venez m'aider, meaning 'come help me'. ...
  • Mayday is a live album by Hugh Cornwell. It was a live show recorded at Sankey's Soap in Manchester on 1 May 1998, hence the title.
  • Mayday is the fourth studio album by Canadian alternative rock band King Cobb Steelie, released in 2000 on Outside Music.
  • Mayday, like Love Parade, is one of the oldest and most reputed electronic music festivals in Germany, having its debut on 1991. Despite the name, Mayday festivals date oscilates between 30 April and December (these being called Winter Mayday). ...
  • Mayday is a 1979 thriller novel by American author Thomas Block. The novel was updated in 1998 by author Nelson DeMille and re-released as a paperback.
  • Mayday , is a Taiwan-based alternative rock band that was formed in the late 1990s with five members, Ashin (A Shin) (vocalist), Monster (Guai Wu/Guai Shou) and Stone (Shi Tou) (lead guitars), Masa (Ma-sha) (bass guitar) and Guan You (Guan-You) (drums).