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		robotresearcher on April 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants Signalling SOB* instead of SOS might be risky. * Save Our Bodies

jwhitlark on April 19, 2018 [–]

I'd always hear it was derived from Save Our Ship, but in reality, it's a backronym, and was chosen simply because it was easy and clear to transmit in Morse Code.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/07/01/sos-mayday/

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