Does any one know?

Question

Who invent the word'' hello'' first in the world when we using the phone??

Answer 1

Thomas Alva Edison.....am i right?

Answer 2

Allen Koenigsberg is a professor of classics at Brooklyn College and an expert in the life of Alexander Graham Bell's rival, Thomas Edison. He says the two great men had different notions about how to let a caller know that you'd
picked up the phone.

Professor ALLEN KOENIGSBERG: When Bell invented the phone, Alexander Graham Bell, he didn't use `hello' at all. He used `ahoy.' He used it twice, `Ahoy. Ahoy.' And apparently he was the only one that used it, because I've never heard anybody to this day say, `Ahoy.' And Bell was not even in the Navy, so I
don't know why he insisted on using a call that way. But if you study the origin of the word `hello,' which may come from `halloo,' is the call of a ferry boat operator, and you call them over when you want a ferry boat to come to your doorstep. And you say, `Halloo.' So the word may have come from that.
Hello just began to be used all over the place, and by the 1880s, it was fairly popular.

Answer 3

1883, alt. of hallo (1840), itself an alt. of holla, hollo, a shout to attract attention, first recorded 1588. Perhaps from holla! "stop, cease." Popularity as a greeting coincides with use of the telephone, where it won out over Alexander Graham Bell's suggestion, ahoy. Central telephone exchange operators were known as hello-girls (1889).
"Hello, formerly an Americanism, is now nearly as common as hullo in Britain (Say who you are; do not just say 'hello' is the warning given in our telephone directories) and the Englishman cannot be expected to give up the right to say hello if he likes it better than his native hullo. [H.W. Fowler, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," 1926]

Answer 4

I don't know, but what else can one say when answering the phone? Other than "Smith Residence", I can't think of much else.

Saying "Good Morning" would be a tad egocentric, because you have no idea what time zone the other person is calling from...

Answer 5

Alex Bell or maybe his assistant, Dr. Watson I think, since he received the first phone call.

Answer 6

I don't know that, but here's an interesting fact, O.K. stands for All Correct. Andrew Jackson, one of our presidents made it up. I guess he wasn't very literate was he? He must have spelled it like this Oll Korrect.

Answer 7

the first human who was asked to talk on the phone .... because they told him that someone would hear you on the other side so he said "Hello"

Answer 8

i guess its a natural thing we do
or
one person used it then the "others" found it "cool" so it started spreading

Answer 9

Good Question , never thought of it