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| {{wiktionarypar|hello}} | |||
| {{otheruses|Hello (disambiguation)}} | |||
| '''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: | 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: | ||
| "A miner th of Europe.'' by William Jacob, 1826. page 213 | |||
| "A miner came out and said: 'Hello!'" | |||
| ⚫ | "On this occasion she switched it on to a patient who was awake and who merely said 'Hello Sister, | ||
| 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 | |||
| ⚫ | "On this occasion she switched it on to a patient who was awake and who merely said 'Hello Sister, |
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| *''The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastime, Ceremonies,...''By William Hone, 1826 Page 1370 | |||
| "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: | |||
| "Friend David, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away. | |||
| What you think? Edison - P.S. first cost of sender & receiver to manufacture is only $7.00." | |||
| By 1889 central telephone exchange operators were known as 'hello-girls' due to the association between the greeting and the telephone.<ref name="etym" /> | |||
| Unusually, the term "hello" is almost exclusively used when answering a phone call as of 2007. The similar terms "hi" or "hey" are seldom used, unless the recipient has ] and knows it is their close friend calling. | |||
| ===Hullo=== | |||
| ''Hello'' may also be derived from ''Hullo''. ''Hullo'' was in use before ''hello'' and was used as a greeting and also an expression of surprise. ] uses it in Chapter 8 of '']'' in ] when Oliver meets ]: | |||
| "Upon this, the boy crossed over; and walking close up to Oliver, said 'Hullo, my covey! What's the row?'" | |||
| 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" /> | |||
| "If I fly, Marcius,/Halloo me like a hare." - '']'' (I.viii.7), ] | |||
| ] 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> | |||
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Revision as of 01:21, 26 September 2007
1876.
It was however used in print in Roughing It by Mark Twain in 1872 (written between 1870 and 1871), so its first use must have predated the telephone:
"A miner th of Europe. by William Jacob, 1826. page 213 "On this occasion she switched it on to a patient who was awake and who merely said 'Hello Sister,
- "Roughing It". UVa Library.