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

First use

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 ,(Anonymous). New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833. p. 144. which was reprinted that same year in Literary Gazette|The London Literary Gazette . The London Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, & c. No. 883: December 21, 1833. p. 803.

The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.

Etymology

According to the Oxford English Dictionary , hello is an alteration of hallo , hollo ,"." Oxford English Dictionary Online . Second Edition, 1989. Oxford University Press . Accessed 09 Sep 2008. which came from Old High German " halâ , holâ , emphatic imperative of halôn , holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman.""." OED Online . Second Edition, 1989. Oxford University Press . Accessed 09 Sep 2008. 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')."". OED Online . Retrieved October 4, 2008. As in addition to hello , halloo ,Butler, Mann, , Wilcox, Dickerman & Co., 1834, p. 106. 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

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 (greeting)|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, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh :

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

Hullo

Hello may be derived from hullo , which the American Merriam-Webster dictionary describes as a "chiefly British variant of hello," 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. London (1803). Volume 23, p. 12. The word hullo is still in use, with the meaning hello .

Hallo

Hello is alternatively thought to come from the word hallo (1840) via hollo (also holla , holloa , halloo , halloa ). The definition of hollo is to shout or an exclamation originally shouted in a fox hunt|hunt when the quarry was spotted: Fowler's has it that "hallo" is first recorded "as a shout to call attention" in 1864.''The New Fowler's , revised third edition by R. W. Burchfield, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860263-4, p. 356.

It is used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written in 1798:
Hallo is also German language|German , Danish language|Danish , Norwegian language|Norwegian , Dutch language|Dutch and Afrikaans language|Afrikaans for Hello.

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

According to the American Heritage Dictionary , hallo is a modification of the obsolete holla ( stop! ), perhaps from Old French hola ( ho , ho& #33; + la , there, from Latin illac , that way).
Hallo is also used by many famous authors like Enid Blyton.
Example:"Hallo!", chorused the 600 children.

The Old English verb, h?lan (1. wv/t1b 1 to heal, cure, save; greet, salute; geh?l& #33; Hosanna!), may be the ultimate origin of the word. H?lan 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

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

Language	Cognate	Usage
Afrikaans	hallo
Albanian	alo	when answering the telephone
Arabic	??? alo	when answering the telephone
Bengali	?????? hêlo	when answering the telephone
Bulgarian	??? (alo)	when answering the telephone
Catalan	hola!	friendly (informal) greeting
Croatian	halo?	when answering the telephone
Czech	Haló?	when answering the telephone
Danish	hallo!	when answering the telephone
Dutch	hallo!	general greeting, normally not used for answering the telephone.
Esperanto	ha lo?	when answering the telephone
Estonian	hallo; halloo	when answering the telephone
Finnish	haloo?	when answering the telephone
French	allô?	when answering the telephone
German	Hallo!
Gujarati	hello!	when answering the telephone
Hungarian language	helló!	friendly (informal) greeting
Hungarian language	halló!	when answering the telephone
Hebrew	????? (hallo)	when answering the telephone / friendly (informal) greeting
Icelandic	Halló	when answering the telephone
Irish	Heileo	Rarely used
Japanese	??? (haro)	friendly (informal) greeting
Kannada	halloa	when answering the telephone
Khmer	allô	when answering the telephone
Lithuanian	alio?	when answering the telephone
Macedonian	??? (alo)	when answering the telephone
Marathi	hello	when answering the telephone
Norwegian	hallo!	general greeting
Persian	??? alo	when answering the telephone
Polish	halo	when answering the telephone
Portuguese	alô?	when answering the telephone (Brazil only)
Romanian	alo	when answering the telephone
Russian	???? (allo) , ???	when answering the telephone
Serbian	????/ halo	when answering the telephone
Spanish language	¡hola!	friendly (informal) greeting
Spanish language	¿aló?	(Latin America) when answering the telephone
Swedish	hallå!
Tagalog language>Tagalog	helo!
Turkish	alo!	when answering the telephone
Vietnamese	a lô!	when answering the telephone

"Hello, World" computer program

Students learning a new computer programming language will often begin by writing a Hello world program|"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 (book)|The C Programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie, which reused the following example taken from earlier memos by Brian Kernighan at Bell Labs:

int main()
{
printf("hello, world");
}

The Apple DOS HELLO program

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

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:

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