{"id":346704,"date":"2019-01-31T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-02-03T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T16:55:33","slug":"where-from-did-hello-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/literature\/where-from-did-hello-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wondered who said Hello for the first time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
“Hello” has been accused of being the most said word ever thanks to our numerous telephone calls. So we thought of just researching that from where actually this word came from and how it become a popular way of greeting someone on telephone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, which came from Old High German “hal\u00e2, hol\u00e2, an emphatic imperative of hal\u00f4n, hol\u00f4n 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 hol\u00e0 (roughly, ‘Whoa there!’, from French l\u00e0 ‘there’). As in addition to hello, hallo and hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelled using any of all five vowels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Telephone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The main mind behind greeting someone with a “hello” on the phone was started by Thomas Edison. According to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard “Hullo”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburgh:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friend David, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away. By 1889, central telephone exchange operators were known as ‘hello-girls’ due to the association between the greeting and the telephone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hullo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n One might assume that “hi” is an abbreviation of hello. In fact, the first recorded use of “hi” as a greeting comes from an 1862 speech, given by a Kansas Indian. It is also thought that “hi” is probably a variant of the Middle English “hy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do you think? Edison – P.S. first cost of sender & receiver to manufacture is only $7.00.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Hello, may be derived from Hullo, which the American Merriam-Webster dictionary describes as just a “British variant of hello,” and which was originally used as an expression of surprise, or a greeting. Hullo is found in publications as early as 1803. The word hullo is still in use, with the meaning of hello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n