Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.
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.
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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