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Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is first attested in writing from 1833.
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, which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette.
The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman." 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'). As in addition to hello, halloo,hallo, hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.
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.Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting. However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburgh:
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Plot: Douglas is on an "educational" cruise and has a parcel to deliver to his pen pal in Tangiers. His pal decides that it's contraband and when Mr Danvers appears the parcel goes missing and everything gets a bit dodgy for the boys.
Genres: Family,Hello my friends.
How's the winter air?
How's your wife been hanging?
How about your dashboard icon?
Do you still sing the blues?
Does your hope constitute destitution?
How well do your wishes work?
That bad... Do you pray for a new life?
A new life?
But we were told that the wind blows in one direction,
and that's the way my dandelions blow...
How bout pennies?
Even then your wishes are one sided.
Course our necks are long,
But we have to awkwardly
Bend to drink our water.
And, of course, we are always thirsty.
No sir, we are not pulled.
I am not home, but you could call.
Have you given up on your god?
He didn't come through for you?
Well, did you come through for yourself?
What battlefield were you at?
Through the narrows,
every which way.
I said through the confines,
hey, have a nice day!
Say, everything is going to be great!
We're gonna hope,
we're gonna hope for the living.
And I've seen you,
I've past you by every deja vu.
You've been under that same rock.
I said, meet any new earthworms today, doll?
And of course we are always thirsty.
Hello my downfall, my coward.
Have you looked in the mirror today?
Whose life were you hoping for?
I say hello, hello goodbye.
So we're running, running, running, running.
Lookers have assumed smaller eyes,
It's what we think.
Someone can't have everything.
Running... running... smaller eyes.
Hanger on a well,
you won with tails,
love has been lost,
and there is little hope in the living.
This sword makes my arm heavy.
My shield begins to rust, cause even shields weep,
my ugly one, and even my soul cries, my coward.
Cowards everywhere... am I your coward speaking?
Hello... hello. Hello my friends.
How's the winter air?
How's your wife been hanging?
How bout your dashboard icon?
Do you still sing the blues?
Does your hope constitute destitution?
How well do your wishes work?
That bad... Do you pray for a new life?
A new life?
With too many words that quickly begin to constitute,