Tomorrow is the first day of May, also known as May Day. The term is known both as the date on the calendar and a distress call, but one has a history behind it. Legend has it that in 1923 Frederick Mockford, a British radio operator, took the french term M’aidez, meaning “Help me,” and anglicized it into the term we know today.
Of course, for those of us who work in places where the first of the month is a real pain in the neck, we will be calling for help quite a bit tomorrow.
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