As soon as they hear the ringing of the landline phone kept far away, people pounce on it and say hello as soon as they pick up the call! When the bell rings in the mobile phone, then slowly take it out of your pocket and say, ‘Hello’ as soon as you pick up the call! (Why we say ‘Hello’ when we Answer the Phone) Whether rich or poor, educated or illiterate, living in urban or rural areas, everyone says hello after picking up the call. The English word ‘Hello’ (Why Hello is used to answer call) is the first word spoken after picking up the phone in many countries of the world including India. But do you know why only this word was chosen.
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with making the telephone. He invented it between the years 1876-1877. But the word he had chosen to speak as soon as he picked up the call was not hello. According to the Reader’s Digest website, Bell decided that people would say Ahoy as soon as they picked up the call. It is derived from the Dutch word hoi which is used only for greeting. But this word is being used since 100 years before Hello. He was ready to use this word all his life.
Why was Bell’s word misinterpreted?
But this word was very awkward. During that time the word hello was not used for greeting, rather it was used to attract attention. When the telephone was invented, it was used like a walkie-talkie. Talk used to happen, but it was not known when the talk is happening and when someone has to listen carefully. For this reason, Thomas Edison chose the word Hello only to attract the attention of the people. He proposed Hello instead of the chosen word of his rival scientist Bell.
Edison proposed hello
Edison sent a letter to the President of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh proposing to use the word Hello. At the beginning of that period, even phone books accepted hello as the official greeting. Since then, Hello was used as soon as the phone was picked up. If seen, what we talk after hello is more important, not hello.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : February 09, 2023, 16:26 IST
