Jan 27 2006
Word Origins: Hello
Your useless item of the the day, courtesy of Wordorigins.org…
Hello: This greeting is much newer than most people think. The use of hello as a greeting is only as old as the telephone. The first recorded use is from 1883. It does, however, have earlier origins in other senses. It is a variant of hallo, which dates to 1840 and is a cry of surprise. That in turn is related to halloo, a cry to urge on hunting dogs. Halloo dates to about 1700, but a variant, aloo, appears in Shakeepeare’s King Lear a century earlier than that.
Hello was not a shoo-in for the telephone greeting either. It competed with several other options, including Alexander Graham Bell’s suggestion of Ahoy, but pulled into an early lead and by the end of the 1880s was firmly ensconced.
September 7th, 2006 at 00:46 am
hi friends,
Hello is the name of Alexander Graham Bell’s girl friend. When called her first time he said Hello which is habituated for all of us. One can forget the Graham Bell but no one will forget his Girlfriends name. See how great it is!!!!!!!!…… this is the love of GrahamBell
November 15th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
nonsense !!!!!! absolute nonsense !