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The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo. Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting. ... Friend David, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello!
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According to the Oxford Dictionary,hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo,which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman.It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there'). As in addition to hello, halloo.
hallo, hollo, hulloand (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.
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The use of hello as a teleephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo.Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.
Hello may be derived from hullo, which the American dictionary describes as a "chiefly British variant of hello,"and which was originally used as an exclamation to call attention, an expression of surprise, or a greeting.
hallo, hollo, hulloand (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.
Telephone
The use of hello as a teleephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo.Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.
Hello may be derived from hullo, which the American dictionary describes as a "chiefly British variant of hello,"and which was originally used as an exclamation to call attention, an expression of surprise, or a greeting.
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