PAN PAN guys… not PAN.
[[ copyright messrs Dupond & Dupondt aka Thomson & Thompson ]]
I would even go so far as to say
PAN PAN PAN
just like I learned to say the thrice holy
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY
No, that would be
PAN PAN, PAN PAN, PAN PAN
It’s just as well we use the French words for Help Me (m’aider)….I think a lot of pilots would be reluctant to cal “Help Me, Help Me, Help Me!”….I wonder if there is a greater reluctance from. French pilots to declare an emergency! Or even “Bread Bread, Bread Bread, Bread Bread” 
