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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: | |||
| "A miner came out and said: 'Hello!" | |||
| 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> and ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/|title=Google books}}</ref>: | |||
| "We meet the boys here, and it is "Hello, George," or "Hello, Jim." We slap the judge of the supreme court on the back with a "Hello, Joe, how are you?"<ref> | |||
| {{cite book |last= Lester |first= Charles Edwards |title= The Artists of America: A Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists with Portraits and Designs on Steel |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=IiUEAAAAYAAJ |accessdate= 2007-10-18 |year= 1846 |publisher= Baker & Scribner |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 ]. <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, 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 | |||
| "Then hello boys! Hello boys! Shout and huzz...." | |||
| ==Etymology== | |||
| There are many different theories to the origins of the word. It might 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 has been suggested to be the phrase "''Hail, Thou''", as used in some translations of the ''Bible'' (see ''Luke 1:28'' and ''Matthew 27:14'' for examples). {{Fact|date=September 2007}} <!-- The fact reference needed is who suggested the "Hail, Thou" theory. --> | |||
| ===Telephone=== | |||
| The word ''hello'' has also been credited to ], specifically as a way to greet someone when answering the ]; according to one source, he expressed 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 ], 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'' 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?" | |||
| Although 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 ] 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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