How Often Do You Say Hello?

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Some random trivia I came across today: the song “Hello My Baby” was meant to poke fun at some trendy slang from the time. That new word was “Hello.” Alexander Graham Bell suggested “Ahoy!” as the proper way to answer this new invention called the telephone. Instead, people were taught that “hello” was the proper way to answer the phone. The song (shown below) made fun of how people sounded when answering phones was still a new phenomenon. How far we’ve come since then! Hello is now just a regular part of the English language.

21 thoughts on “How Often Do You Say Hello?”

  2. It’s like how “goodbye” started out as slang but became so popular. I think when the phone was first invented, “ahoy-hoy” was thought to be the correct way to answer calls according to Bell. It’s so interesting how it evolved into “hello” and now saying “hello” is the most normal thing. Although, to be honest I still prefer “ahoy-hoy” lol.

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  3. I just googled ahoy and it is a valid word in English, Spanish, and French. Unbelievable. LOL. Thank you for sharing. I guess “hello” and “OK” have become quite universal. Different cultures have different greetings…

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