Monday, October 9, 2017

I'd heard that "hello" as a salutation was popularized by the telephone, so I looked at the Ngram viewer.









Now I'm going to be distracted every time I hear someone say 'hello' in a Western.

1 comment:

  1. Before the telephone company adopted it as a greeting, "hello" was an expression of surprise as in "Hello, what have we here?"

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