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The standardization of 'hello' as a greeting in telephone conversations, influenced by Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, and its adoption in the United States in the late 19th century.
The word "hello" in its modern spelling is first documented in printed English in 1826, but it arrived as part of a family of attention-calling forms (holla, hollo, hallo, hullo) with roots much earli...
The telephone transformed "hello" from a marginal attention-getter into the default way Europeans and Americans opened remote conversation by virtue of technical need, influential advocates and rapid ...