>mayday (mâ´dâ´) noun
>An international radiotelephone signal word used by aircraft and ships in distress.
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>Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
I know; the title was supposed to be funny.
Anyway, how exactly do you call May the 1st. in the United States? May Day?
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)