Sending Out An SOS -The Police

Police Original [1979]

Category:

Music

Tags:

• sending
• out
• an
• sos

[SuperChris2k10]

what does SOS stand for lol

[Diablo4643]

@SuperChris2k10 Save Our Souls

[LTAETUBE]

@Diablo4643 i agree, but it's it's not its

[Diablo4643]

@LTAETUBE LOL!!!! oops :P

[Se7eNJinx]

@Diablo4643 or save our sailors or save our survivors or send out support or or or or

[ct1600]

@Delegor34

You got it in the right order.

[BechTalent]

@Diablo4643

"In popular usage, SOS became associated with such phrases as "save our ship", "save our souls" and "send out succour". These may be regarded as mnemonics, but SOS is not an abbreviation, acronym or initialism. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.), the letters were chosen because they are easily transmitted in Morse code."

Not trying to be a dick, just wanted to clear things up :).

[Delegor34]

@SuperChris2k10 SOS doesn't stand for anything. in morse code, its the simplest thing people can send out. SOS being = ...---... or the other way around. not sure.

[dezent]

@Diablo4643

From wikipedia and verified with a friend who is a captain.

This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905.

SOS became associated with such phrases as "save our ship", "save our souls" and "send out succour". These may be regarded as mnemonics, but SOS is not an abbreviation, acronym or initialism. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the letters were chosen because they are easily transmitted in Morse code.

[CammanderLongshot1]

@SuperChris2k10 save our ship it was morse code for help and help was too hard to put into morse code or something so they used S.O.S

[nictytan]

Heh, the second verse's first sentence sounds like French

"Mon oncle Binette a les mains coupées."

(My uncle Binette's hands have been cut off)

LOL

[kingsstay37]

good shit fer real!!

[nictD2]

great song!