why after receiving a call or after making a call everyone say hello than the other word?

Answer 1

The word hello is also credited to Thomas Edison specifically as a way to greet someone when answering the telephone; according to one source due to expressing his surprise with a misheard Hullo. Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting. 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.

In Hungarian, Hallod? (pron. roughly as British hullo) means "Do you hear [it/what I am saying]?" and the answer is Hallom (pron. like hullom) for "I hear [it/what you are saying].". Another story suggests this a a source for the use of hello on the telephone: the Hungarian inventor Tivadar Puskas was in America when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Soon Puskas began work on a telephone exchange. According to Thomas Edison, "Tivadar Puskas was the first person to suggest the idea of a telephone exchange". Puskas' idea finally became a reality in 1877 in Boston. It was then that the word hallom, which later became hallo/hello was used for the first time in a telephone conversation when, on hearing the voice of the person at the other end of the line, an exultant Puskas shouted out in Hungarian "hallom" "I hear you".

Answer 2

People say hello because its habit. Its also formal. When I answer a call from my friends I might open by saying hey, whats up? If I answer the house phone when I'm uncertain of the caller, I habitually say hello.

Our parents say hello, their parents said hello, its a longstanding habit we acquire from watching our predecessors.

Answer 3

that word has been stuffed in our heads since long still now a days many use their own styles of answering anyway the universal style of hello is really sweet i do not think it needs any change, this is the best informal greeting i believe

Answer 4

The word 'hello' is used to check that the phone lines are connected.

Answer 5

Actually, Thomas Edison invented the word "Hello."

Alexander Graham Bell used the nautical term "Ahoy!" on his phone. I also use it, in honor of Bell.

Answer 6

Good question Pushpa & thank you Louis for your answer. I had no idea. You just repeat something coz everyone else does it never knowing why .......

Answer 7

Mexicans sey HOLLA !
Spanish say OLLA !
WEird isn`nt IT ?

Answer 8

Should we be saying "f*ck you dont ever call here again" instead?

Answer 9

some say hello
some say yes
some say hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

not all dear

Answer 10

What?