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Why Say 'hello' On Lifting The Telephone? by Officerricky
(m ): 11:26am On May 09 , 2013
Nearly every person on this planet, irrespective of their
caste, creed, religion, nationality,
language, status or position in society on picking up a
phone will first say ‘Hello.’ Have any of us ever
wondered as to why we say ‘Hello’ on lifting a
phone? It may be re-called that it was Alexander Graham
Bell, who first invented the telephone way back in March,
1876. Was he then the person who first coined the
word ‘Hello?’ There are no such records in history
verifying that he was indeed the person to coin the
word, and one also tends to wonder about that
because the word ‘Hello’ has been used for ages, even
when people met each other face-to-face. There is even a
hoax mail circulating online about
‘Hello.’ It states that there was a girl called
Margaret Hello and she was supposed to be the
girlfriend of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of
telephone. And from her name the word originated. It
goes on to add that in life we may forget the name of the
great inventor Graham Bell but never that of his
girlfriend, who was his true love. However, the fact is that
Graham Bell never had a
girlfriend name Margaret Hello; he had a wife whose
name was Mable Hubbard Bell. And the sad irony was
she could never be able to use a phone because she
was deaf. Also in reality, the word used by Bell after
inventing the telephone was Ahoy! It was actually Thomas
Alva Edison who first used the word
‘Hello’ on mistakenly hearing a ‘Hullo.’ One finds the word
"Hello" as an acceptable form of
greeting between people of all levels and strata of
society, whether it be your closest friend or the
President of the United States or Queen of England or
any ordinary person. It would still be an acceptable
form of greeting either while talking face-to-face or after
picking up a phone. Once this aspect of the word
“Hello” was realized, people started to pick up on it
and now it is just a custom and to a great extent an
unconscious habit. Without a shred of doubt it can be said
that "Hello" is
the most common word used by every one world
over, once they pick up the phone. You can even
check for yourself and note this. Also next time, when
your phone rings and you say a "Hello" do ponder
over it, before you start a conversation. Tring Tring Tring
.... Hello...Hello. |
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