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The secret underground organization rebelling against the Gilead regime is named "Mayday." This name comes from the military and aviation emergency procedure word in radio communications. In Margaret Atwood's source novel, Offred reflects on the origins of the word: "Mayday used to be a distress signal, a long time ago, in one of those wars we studied in high school. I kept getting them mixed up, but you could tell them apart by the airplanes if you paid attention. It was Luke who told me about mayday, though. Mayday, mayday, for pilots whose planes had been hit, and ships--was it ships too?--at sea. Maybe it was S O S for ships. I wish I could look it up. And it was something from Beethoven, for the beginning of the victory, in one of those wars. 'Do you know what it came from?' said Luke. 'Mayday?' 'No,' I said. 'It's a strange word to use for that, isn't it?...' 'It's French,' he said. 'From m'aidez.' Help me."

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