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Hello (stylized as HELLO!) is a weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news and human-interest stories, published in the United Kingdom since 1988. Hello is sister magazine to ¡Hola!, the Spanish weekly magazine launched in Spain in 1944. ¡HOLA! Spanish, Hello UK, and ¡HOLA! Mexican – launched in 2006 – make up the magazines published by HOLA, S.A and distributed in over 100 countries. Local editions of the magazine are also published in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Ecuador, Greece, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Middle East, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia, Serbia, Thailand, and Turkey.

History[link]

Hello was launched in 1988 by publisher Eduardo Sánchez Junco, owner and chairman of Spain’s groundbreaking ¡HOLA! magazine. ¡HOLA! was created in 1944 by husband and wife Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón. They wanted to create a light-hearted magazine that focused on weddings, new babies, new loves, and other people-centered, personal stories. Antonio Sánchez Gómez felt that "things of human interest would have pride of place in the magazine, and people more than things." From the beginning, ¡HOLA! regularly sold out and built a reputation for elegance and good taste.

The success of both magazines led to the expansion of the brand across the world, after exports to over 70 countries bolstered the company’s international presence. Today, editions of the magazine are produced in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Middle East, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, Serbia, Thailand, and Turkey. In total there are 18 editions of the magazine and nine websites.

Editorial concept[link]

Hello’s editorial concept distinguishes it from the many sensationalist and negative celebrity magazines on the market in the UK. Hello’s content includes respectful coverage of celebrities and royals and compelling human-interest stories. It aims to provide the quality of content that a monthly magazine provides in a news-focused, weekly format.

The magazine’s respectful treatment of celebrities allows it to maintain a friendly relationship with many stars. Through these relationships the magazine often obtains exclusive photos and interviews directly from the stars. Many of the biggest exclusives in recent memory have been published by Hello, including the births of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s children Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ wedding, and Sandra Bullock’s debut of her son. Coverage of royalty comprises a significant portion of the magazine’s content.

Website[link]

Hellomagazine.com is the official website of the weekly celebrity news magazine Hello. Started in 2001 to complement the magazine, the website contains separate content to the weekly magazine, reporting celebrity news on a daily rather than weekly basis. The site is updated throughout the day, seven days a week.

The site provides users with photos, news stories and video content in the following categories: Celebrities, Fashion, Royalty, Beauty, Brides, Cuisine, Travel and Your Weddings.

At the end of each year, hellomagazine.com hosts three polls that draw international attention: Most Attractive Man, Most Attractive Woman, and Most Elegant Woman. In January 2010, Hugh Laurie was named Most Attractive Man, while Kristen Stewart won Most Attractive Woman, and Angelina Jolie was voted Most Elegant Woman. Altogether, the polls totaled close to 750,000 votes.

Aside from the British website, the Hello group has websites in:

• Brazil^[1]
• Bulgaria^[2]
• Canada^[3]
• Greece^[4]
• Indonesia^[5]
• Mexico^[6]
• Russia^[7]
• Serbia^[8]
• Spain^[9]

Awards[link]

• 2008 'PTC Top Dog Awards Commercial Director of the Year', Winner
• 2005 'ACE', UK Magazine distributed Internationally, Winner
• 2004 'PPA' – Sales Pitch of the Year, Winner
• 2002 'PPA' – International Magazine of the Year, Winner
• 1999 'BSME Awards', Best International magazine, Winner.
• 1998 'Marketing Week 20th Birthday Awards', Best Consumer Magazine, Winner
• 1996 'The Press Circulation Awards' - Consumer Magazine of the Year, short-listed
• 1995 'International Press Directory' - International Publishing Award to Eduardo Sánchez Junco
• 1992 'The Press Circulation Awards' - Circulation Excellence by a Consumer Magazine, Finalist
  • 'Media Week Press Advertising Awards' - Consumer Magazine of the Year, Winner
  • 'The Publisher' - Best Front Cover, Winner
  • 'PPA' - Consumer Magazine of the Year, Highly Commended
• 1991 'The Press Circulation Awards' - Circulation Excellence by a Consumer Magazine, Winner
  • 'British Society of Magazine Editors' - General Interest Magazine Editors of the Year, Winner
  • 'The Publisher Magazine Publishing Awards' - Magazine of the Year, Runner-up
  • 'PPA' – Consumer Magazine of the Year, Highly Commended
• 1990 'PPA' – Consumer Magazine of the Year, Winner
  • 'Media Week Advertising Awards' - Consumer Magazine of the Year, Winner
  • 'The Press Circulation Awards' - Greatest Annual Percentage and/or Copy Growth by a Consumer Magazine, Runner-up

Litigation[link]

• 2003 – Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas sued Hello for publishing unauthorised photographs of their wedding. Rival magazine OK! had an exclusive contract for pictures of the wedding, and also sued Hello In November 2003, OK! was awarded £1,033,156 in damages, and Jones and Douglas received £14,600.

• 2006 – Hello, which secured the British rights to the first images of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn daughter, launched legal action with People against two websites that printed a leaked exclusive shot of the couple with their new baby daughter. The leaked photo, which contains Hello magazine's logo, shows a headline which reads: "The biggest exclusive of the year. Angelina and Brad with their new Baby Shiloh Nouvel." People magazine reportedly paying more than $4 million USD to secure the American rights.^[10]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Hello magazine website
• Hello Russia official website
• Hello Serbia official website
• Everything2 article on Hello
• Hello Greece official website
• Hello Indonesia official website

Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is attested in writing as early as the 1830s.

First use[link]

Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications as early as 1833. These include an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee,^[1] which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette.^[2]

The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.^{[citation needed]}

Etymology[link]

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo,^[3] which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman."^[4] It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there').^[5] As in addition to hello, halloo,^[6] hallo, hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.

Telephone[link]

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.^[7] Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.^[8][9] However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburgh:

Friend David, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away. What you think? Edison - P.S. first cost of sender & receiver to manufacture is only $7.00.^{[citation needed]}

By 1889, central telephone exchange operators were known as 'hello-girls' due to the association between the greeting and the telephone.^[9]

Hullo[link]

Hello may be derived from hullo, which the American Merriam-Webster dictionary describes as a "chiefly British variant of hello,"^[10] and which was originally used as an exclamation to call attention, an expression of surprise, or a greeting. Hullo is found in publications as early as 1803.^[11] The word hullo is still in use, with the meaning hello.^{[12][13][14][15][16]}

Hallo[link]

Hello is alternatively thought to come from the word hallo (1840) via hollo (also holla, holloa, halloo, halloa).^[10] The definition of hollo is to shout or an exclamation originally shouted in a hunt when the quarry was spotted:^[10] Fowler's has it that "hallo" is first recorded "as a shout to call attention" in 1864.^[17]

It is used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written in 1798:

And the good south wind still blew behind,

But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play

Came to the mariners' hollo!

Hallo is also German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Afrikaans for Hello.

If I fly, Marcius,/Halloo me like a hare.

—Coriolanus (I.viii.7), William Shakespeare

Webster's dictionary from 1913 traces the etymology of holloa to the Old English halow and suggests: "Perhaps from ah + lo; compare Anglo Saxon ealā."

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, hallo is a modification of the obsolete holla (stop!), perhaps from Old French hola (ho, ho! + la, there, from Latin illac, that way).^[18] Hallo is also used by many famous authors like Enid Blyton. Example:"Hallo!", chorused the 600 children.

The Old English verb, hǽlan (1. wv/t1b 1 to heal, cure, save; greet, salute; gehǽl! Hosanna!), may be the ultimate origin of the word.^[19] Hǽlan is likely a cognate of German Heil and other similar words of Germanic origin. Bill Bryson asserts in his book Mother Tongue that "hello" comes from Old English hál béo þu ("Hale be thou", or "whole be thou", meaning a wish for good health).

Cognates[link]

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The word "hello" is found in many other languages. It is often only used when answering the telephone, or as an informal greeting.

"Hello, World" computer program[link]

Students learning a new computer programming language will often begin by writing a "Hello, world!" program, which outputs that greeting to a display screen or printer. The widespread use of this tradition arose from an introductory chapter of the book The C Programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie, which reused the following example taken from earlier memos by Brian Kernighan at Bell Labs:

<source lang="c">

int main() 
{
       printf("hello, world");
}</source>

The Apple DOS HELLO program[link]

A diskette formatted to boot Apple DOS 3.x on the Apple II series of computers will look for a BASIC program to run automatically after the operating system has booted. By default, the name of the program is HELLO, and is specified as a parameter of the INIT command used to format a floppy disk. For the HELLO program to work, it has to be created in the same language (Integer BASIC or Applesoft BASIC) that is present in the language ROM of the system the disk is being booted on.

Perception of "Hello" in other nations[link]

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In some other nations, especially the ones that had little contact with foreigners at the time, Westerners were often viewed as people who constantly said "hello" and little else. Jung Chang describes this view as follows:

In my mind... foreigners said 'hello' all the time, with an odd intonation.... When boys played 'guerrilla warfare,' which was their version of cowboys and Indians, the enemy side would have thorns glued onto their noses and say 'hello' all the time.

—Chang, Jung^[20]

See also[link]

• World Hello Day

Greetings in other languages

References[link]

External links[link]

Look up hello, hi, hey, or hiya in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Hello in more than 800 languages
• OED online entry for hollo (Subscription)
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary: hollo, hullo
• How to Say Hello Around the World - slideshow by Life magazine

Martin Laurent Picandet (French pronunciation: [maʁtɛ̃ pikɑ̃dɛ]) (born 22 September 1976), better known under his stage name Martin Solveig, is a French electronic music DJ and producer from Paris. He also hosts a weekly radio show called "C'est La Vie" on stations worldwide including FG DJ Radio in his homeland. His label is called Mixture Stereophonic. Martin Solveig had been ranked 29^th in the 2011 DJ Mag Top 100 DJs popularity poll.^[1] He has collaborated with Dragonette, Kele of Bloc Party, and Madonna.

History[link]

As a child, Martin Solveig joined the choir of the Petits Chanteurs de Sainte-Croix de Neuilly,^[2] where he had a classical music training and became soprano soloist under the direction of François Polgár. At the age of 18, he became a DJ and then started to work in famous Parisian nightclubs : L'Enfer, Le Queen, Les Bains Douches.

Solveig chose his pseudonym as an homage to the French actress Solveig Dommartin.^[3]

In 2011, Solveig was officially named as one of the producers for Madonna's new studio album, MDNA.^[4]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Compilations[link]

Singles[link]

"Hello" became Martin Solveig's breakthrough song in the world, used in a Trident Gum commercial in 2011. The song earned popularity and eventually became his first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 43. The song also reached number one on dance charts around the world as well as on the Dutch Top 40.

Other singles[link]

Notes:

• ^A - Solveig was credited as Africanism.

References[link]

External links[link]

• TwistedHouse.com Martin Solveig Interview
• Martin Solveig Interview (Ibiza,Spain)2006
• Martin Solveig biography
• Top 40 charts record for Martin Solveig
• Martin Solveig İstanbul