Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is attested in writing as early as the 1830s. The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo. Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.
Have you ever stopped to consider how many people are saying “hello” to each other today, and in how many different languages? If you want to say “hello” to everyone on the planet, you would have to learn at least 2,796 languages and greet at least 6,500,000,000 people.
Watch this video for some of the ways of saying “hello” around the world. Hola in Spanish, Ciao in Italian or bonjour/salut among peers in France, and many more!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOvMkSOl9m4
The word Hello has played an important part for some of the most memorable lines in movies and song titles:
Film
“You had me at Hello” — Jerry Maguire
“Hello gorgeous” –- Funny Girl
“Say Hello to my little friend”–Scarface
Music
“Hello Again” –Neil Diamond
“Hello, I love You”–The Doors
“Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda” — Alan Sherman
“Hello, Dolly” –Louis Armstrong
“Hello, Mary Lou” –Ricky Nelson
“Hello, Goodbye”–The Beatles
“Hello” –Lionel Richie
Hello is the first greeting that helps us start a verbal interaction with a person who is new to us. The different ways of saying hello also helps us understand the kind of relationship that the person wants with us, a formal one, or a friendly one!
Formal Ways of Saying Hello in English
- Glad to meet you / glad to see you / glad to hear from you.
- How are you?
- How are you doing today?
- Good Day
- Depending on the time of day: Good morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening
- Welcome
- Greetings
- Hey
- Hi
- Hiya
- How’s it going?
- Howdy
- Hey babe
- Wassup / what’s up
- Yo
- Sup
- Howzit
- How you doing man?
- What’s happening?
- Hey Bud
Every year, November 21 is World Hello Day. The objective is to say hello to ten people on the day. By greeting others, the message is for world leaders to use communication rather than force to settle conflicts.The event began in 1973 by Brian and Michael McCormack in response to the Yom Kippur War. Since then World Hello Day has been observed by people in 180 countries.
So, today I am grateful for the many ways we say hello to the people in our lives. If more of us would just be kinder to one another and we can just start by saying hello, what a wonderful world this would be. I want to thank my sons for helping with some of the informal ways to say hello, some of which I did not know.
But I especially want to say a special hello to someone close and dear to my heart. A person whom I intend to say hello to for the rest of my life. Here is a video about how I feel about you sweetheart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQDqNFvYD4
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