What is the real meaning of Hello?.

kumaran_63
By kumaran_63

SMALL INFO: Did You know: Meaning of 'Hello'

Hi All,

When you lift the phone you say Hello....

Do you know what is the real meaning of Hello ?
It is the name of a girl !!!

YES !!!!!!!!!!!
And do you know who is that girl ??

Margaret Hello .....

She was the girlfriend of Grahambell who invented telephone....

One can forget the name of Grahambell but not his girlfriend, that is love !!!!!

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By anonymous• 2 Jan 2011 14:26
anonymous

owned

By Victoria5518• 2 Jan 2011 12:35
Rating: 4/5
Victoria5518

First use

Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications as early as 1833. These include an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee,[1] which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette.[2]

The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.[citation needed]

Etymology

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo,[3] which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imper[ative] of halôn, holôn to fetch, used esp[ecially] in hailing a ferryman."[4] 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').[5] As in addition to hello, hallo and hollo, hullo and (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 telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo.[6] Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.[7][8] However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburgh:

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By bojo2010• 2 Jan 2011 11:14
bojo2010

hello kitty ^_^ LOL!!!

By anonymous• 2 Jan 2011 11:04
anonymous

Thanks for sharing.

By flexicode• 2 Jan 2011 11:00
flexicode

Hala, in Arabic

By somwerNdmiddle• 2 Jan 2011 10:55
somwerNdmiddle

mangal, i thought it was patatas :p

By somwerNdmiddle• 2 Jan 2011 10:54
somwerNdmiddle

lol MJ! i remember that one :D

By anonymous• 2 Jan 2011 10:54
anonymous

in hindi :0)

By mjamille28• 2 Jan 2011 10:53
Rating: 2/5
mjamille28

somwer, it's a name of a soap back home.. :P

By somwerNdmiddle• 2 Jan 2011 10:53
somwerNdmiddle

in what language is that?

By anonymous• 2 Jan 2011 10:51
anonymous

n aalo means potato

By somwerNdmiddle• 2 Jan 2011 10:46
somwerNdmiddle

isn't that cooking oil mangal? :D

By anonymous• 2 Jan 2011 10:36
anonymous

ice cream name

By somwerNdmiddle• 2 Jan 2011 10:35
somwerNdmiddle

how about Ola? what does it mean? :p

By kumaran_63• 2 Jan 2011 10:35
kumaran_63

Sorry

By anonymous• 2 Jan 2011 10:34
anonymous

search box blease blease

By one_shot• 2 Jan 2011 10:34
one_shot

hehehhe

i agree with you.

Oh not again!!!

By ENvY mE• 2 Jan 2011 10:33
ENvY mE

notttttt againnn :(

By Arien• 2 Jan 2011 10:32
Arien

Oh not again!!!

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