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Love my grandkids
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Registered: ‎11-24-2013

"MAYDAY" A FUN FACTOID ABOUT THIS WORD

‎07-20-2021 01:36 PM

So I'm reading "The Handmaid's Tale" and learned that the term "mayday" derives from the French word "m'aidez" which means "help me". I love learning about word origins and thought this was interesting.

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phoenixbrd
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‎07-20-2021 02:08 PM

@Love my grandkids   Share your love of language, thanks for the interesting post!

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GenXmuse
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Re: "MAYDAY" A FUN FACTOID ABOUT THIS WORD

‎07-20-2021 02:21 PM

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing that tidbit-I never knew that. 

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‎07-20-2021 04:08 PM

@Love my grandkids  How do you like the book?  I've requested it from our library.

 

 

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‎07-20-2021 04:15 PM

@kaydee50 I'm only I think on Chapter 5 and am enjoying it very much. Scary to think the world could ever be like this. I knew a little bit about it but it's a very good read.

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‎07-20-2021 08:07 PM - edited ‎07-20-2021 08:09 PM

 I knew the meaning of the word from some relatives that were enlisted during WWII

 Maybe it was used during WWi  since we  had many troups in France.

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