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'''Hello''' is a ] or ] in the ] and is ]ous with other greetings such as '']'' or '']''. ''Hello'' was recorded in dictionaries in ].<ref name="etym">
{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=hello&searchmode=none|title=Online Etymology Dictionary}}</ref>

==First use==
Many stories date the first use of ''hello'' (with that spelling) to around the time of the invention of the ] in 1876.
It was however used in print in '']'' by ] in 1872 (written between 1870 and 1871),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/roughingit/rihp.html|title=Roughing It|publisher=UVa Library}}</ref> so its first use must have predated the telephone:
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"A miner came out and said: 'Hello!'"
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Earlier uses can be found back to ].<ref>
{{cite book |last= Foster |first= George G |title= New York in Slices |url= http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJA2254.0001.001 |accessdate= 2006-08-15 |year= 1849 |publisher= W. F. Burgess|location= New York |pages= }}</ref>
It was listed in dictionaries by 1883.<ref name="etym">
{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=hello&searchmode=none|title=Online Etymology Dictionary}}</ref>

The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/|title=Google books}}</ref> Two early uses of ''hello'' can be found as far back as ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/|title=Google books}}</ref>

*''Report on the trade in foreign corn, and on the agriculture of the north of Europe.'' by William Jacob, 1826. page 213<p>
"On this occasion she switched it on to a patient who was awake and who merely said 'Hello Sister, what's the matter with you...'"

*''The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastime, Ceremonies,...''By William Hone, 1826 Page 1370<p>
"Then hello boys! Hello boys! Shout and huzz....

==Etymology==
There are many different theories to the origins of the word. It may be a ] of ] ] "''whole be thou''".<ref>{{cite book |author=Bryson, Bill|title=Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way |url=http://www.ralphmag.org/mothertongue.html}}</ref> Another source may be the phrase "''Hail, Thou''", as in the ''Bible''; ''Luke'' 1:28 and ''Matthew'' 27:14.

===Telephone===
The word ''hello'' is also credited to ] specifically as a way to greet someone when answering the ]; according to one source due to expressing his surprise with a misheard ''Hullo''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectorcafe.com/article_archive.asp?article=800&id=1507|title=The First “Hello!”: Thomas Edison, the Phonograph and the Telephone – Part 2|author=Allen Koenigsberg|publisher=Antique Phonograph Magazine, Vol.VIII No.6|accessdate=2006-09-13}}</ref> ] initially used '']'' (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~klong/papers/hello.txt|title=All Things Considered|author=Allen Koenigsberg|publisher=National Public Radio|accessdate=2006-09-13|date=1999}}</ref> However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburg:<br><br>
"Friend David, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away.<br> What you think? Edison - P.S. first cost of sender & receiver to manufacture is only $7.00."
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By 1889 central telephone exchange operators were known as 'hello-girls' due to the association between the greeting and the telephone.<ref name="etym" />

===Hullo===
''Hello'' may also be derived from ''Hullo''. ''Hullo'' was in use before ''hello''{{Fact|date=February 2007}} and was used as a greeting and also an expression of surprise. ] uses it in Chapter 8 of '']'' in ] when Oliver meets ]:
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"Upon this, the boy crossed over; and walking close up to Oliver, said 'Hullo, my covey! What's the row?'"
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It was in use in both senses by the time '']'' was published in 1857 (although the book was set in the 1830s so it may have been in use by then):
*"'Hullo though,' says East, pulling up, and taking another look at Tom; 'this'll never do...'"
*"Hullo, Brown! where do you come from?"
Though much less common than it used to be, the word ''hullo'' is still in use, mainly in ].

===Hallo===
''Hello'' is alternatively thought to come from the word ''hallo'' (1840) via ''hollo'' (also ''holla'', ''holloa'', ''halloo'', ''halloa'').<ref name="MW">{{cite web|url=http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/hello|title=Hello|publisher=Merriam-Webster Online}}</ref> The definition of ''hollo'' is to shout or an ] originally shouted in a ] when the quarry was spotted:<ref name="MW" />
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"If I fly, Marcius,/Halloo me like a hare." - '']'' (I.viii.7), ]
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] from 1913 traces the etymology of ''holloa'' to the Old English ''halow'' and suggests: "Perhaps from ah + lo; compare Anglo Saxon ealā".

According to the '']'', ''hallo'' is a modification of the obsolete ''holla'' (''stop!''), perhaps from Old French ''hola'' (''ho'', ho! + ''la'', there, from Latin ''illac'', that way).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bartelby.com/61/60/H0136000.html|title=Hello|publisher= The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.|date=2000|accessdate=2006-09-01}}</ref>

==Trivia==
Computers exchanging email with ] greet each other with a HELO command.

==See also==
* ]

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