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24-520: Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is first attested in writing from 1826. Hello , with that spelling, was used in publications in the U.S. as early as the 18 October 1826 edition of the Norwich Courier of Norwich, Connecticut . Another early use was an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee , which

48-407: A 1974 memo by Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories . Salutation The salutation "Dear" in combination with a name or a title is by far the most commonly used salutation in both British and US English, in both formal and informal correspondence. It is commonly followed either by an honorific and a surname, such as "Dear Mr. Smith," or by a given name, such as "Dear Mark." However, it

72-414: 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. The first name tags to include Hello may have 1880 at Niagara Falls, which was the site of the first telephone operators convention. By 1889, central telephone exchange operators were known as " hello-girls " because of the association between the greeting and

96-478: A new computer programming language will often begin by writing a "Hello, World!" program, which does nothing but issue the message "Hello, World!" to the user (such as by displaying it on a screen). It has been used since the earliest programs, and in many computer languages. This tradition was further popularised after being printed in an introductory chapter of the book The C Programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie. The book had reused an example taken from

120-520: Is an English–language neologistic honorific for use alongside Mr., Ms., etc. that does not indicate gender. It is often the only option for nonbinary people, as well as those who do not wish to reveal their gender. It is a gender-neutral title that is now accepted by much of the United Kingdom's government and some businesses in the United Kingdom. "Ms." is the marital-status-neutral honorific for an adult woman and may be applied in cases in which

144-457: Is not common in English to use both a title of address and a person's given name: "Dear Mr. John Smith" would not be common form. Sometimes, the salutation "To" is used for informal correspondence, for example "To Peter". A comma follows the salutation and name, while a colon is used in place of a comma only in US business correspondence. This rule applies regardless of the level of formality of

168-427: Is still in use, with the meaning hello . 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 hunt when the quarry was spotted: If I fly, Marcius,/Halloo me like a hare. Fowler's has it that "hallo" is first recorded "as a shout to call attention" in 1864. It

192-467: 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! In many Germanic languages , including German, Danish , Norwegian , Dutch and Afrikaans , " hallo " literally translates into English as "hello". In

216-654: The United Kingdom of the Netherlands on 18 December 1831. According to Godfried Bomans , who named a club after his pseudonym Teisterbant , the bed Bilderdijk died in was kept until 1950 as a curiosity for people to look at. A commemorative gable stone was placed on the top gable of his old house in 1885, and a commemorative stone is also in the St. Bavochurch . The collection of the Bilderdijk Museum

240-656: The case of Dutch, it was used as early as 1797 in a letter from Willem Bilderdijk to his sister-in-law as a remark of astonishment. 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). Students learning

264-572: The correspondence. If the name of the intended recipient is unknown, acceptable salutations are: In older British usage and current US usage, the abbreviations " Mx ", "Ms", "Mr", "Dr", and "Mrs" are typically followed by a period ( full stop ), but it is common in recent British usage to drop the period after all such titles. Professional titles such as "Professor" are frequently used both in business and in social correspondence, as are those of dignitaries and holders of certain public offices, such as "Mr. President" or "Dear Madam Secretary". " Mx ."

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288-461: 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. Before the telephone, verbal greetings often involved a time of day, such as "good morning". When

312-510: The king supposedly told his people that he was the "Konijn van 'Olland" ("rabbit of 'Olland"), rather than "Koning van Holland" ("King of Holland") because he had difficulty mastering Dutch pronunciation. After the abdication of Louis, Bilderdijk suffered great poverty; on the accession of William I of the Netherlands in 1813, he hoped to be made a professor but was disappointed and became a history tutor at Leiden. He continued his vigorous campaign against liberal ideas to his death. Bilderdijk

336-499: The latter use to be dated. " Master " is used in formal situations for addressing boys typically aged under 16, after which it is "Mr." "Master" in this case is of old English origin. Messrs. or Messieurs is a historically used term to address many men rather than "Mr Pink, Mr White, et al." Messrs is the abbreviation (pronounced "messers") for messieurs and is used in English. Mesdames addresses many women; pronounced "Meydammes". On occasion, one may use "Sir" or "Madam" by itself as

360-476: The marital status is irrelevant or unknown to the author. For example, if one is writing a business letter to a woman, "Ms." is acceptable. "Mrs." denotes an adult woman who is married. "Miss" can apply to specifically unmarried women, however, the term is being replaced more and more by "Ms." "Miss" can apply to an unmarried woman or more generally to a younger woman. "Miss" is the proper form of address for female children and unmarried women, although some consider

384-670: The oath to the administration of the new Batavian Republic , and was consequently obliged to leave the Netherlands. He went to Hamburg , and then to London , where his great learning procured him consideration. There he had as a pupil Katharina Wilhelmina Schweickhardt  [ de ] (1776–1830), the daughter of the Dutch painter Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt and herself a poet. When he left London in June 1797 for Braunschweig , this lady followed him, and after he had formally divorced his first wife (1802) they were married. In 1806 he

408-507: The salutation, with nothing preceding. The severe and old-fashioned formality of such a salutation makes it appropriate for very formal correspondence (for example, addressing a head of state, or a letter to the editor), but in the same way, the formality and stiffness of such a salutation would make its use in friendly social correspondence inappropriate. Willem Bilderdijk Willem Bilderdijk ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm ˈbɪldərˌdɛik] ; 7 September 1756 – 18 December 1831)

432-424: The telephone began connecting people in different time zones, greetings without time gained popularity. Thomas Edison is credited with popularizing hullo as a telephone greeting. In previous decades, hullo had been used as an exclamation of surprise (used early on by Charles Dickens in 1850) and halloo was shouted at ferry boat operators by people who wanted to catch a ride. According to one account, halloo

456-527: The telephone. A 1918 fiction novel uses the spelling "Halloa" in the context of telephone conversations. Hello might be derived from an older spelling variant, 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. The word hullo

480-899: Was a Dutch poet, historian, lawyer, and linguist. Willem Bilderdijk was born on 7 September 1756 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic . He was the son of an Amsterdam physician . When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous and concentrated study. His parents were ardent partisans of the House of Orange-Nassau , and Bilderdijk grew up with strong monarchical and Calvinistic convictions. After studying at Leiden University , Bilderdijk obtained his doctorate in law in 1782, and began to practise as an advocate at The Hague . Three years later he contracted an unhappy marriage with Rebecca Woesthoven. He refused in 1795 to take

504-676: Was persuaded by his friends to return to the Netherlands , where the Batavian Republic had been replaced by a monarchy, the first king being Louis Bonaparte , a brother of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte . Louis Napoleon received Bilderdijk kindly and made him his librarian, and a member and eventually president (1809–1811) of the Royal Institute . Bilderdijk also taught the king Dutch although on one occasion,

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528-562: 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

552-489: Was the first word Edison yelled into his strip phonograph when he discovered recorded sound in 1877. Shortly after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he answered calls by saying " ahoy ahoy ", borrowing the term used on ships. There is no evidence the greeting caught on. Edison suggested Hello! on August 15, 1877 in a letter to the president of Pittsburgh 's Central District and Printing Telegraph Company, T. B. A. David: Friend David, I do not think we shall need

576-532: Was the founder of the spiritual movement " Het Réveil ", which tried to give a Christian answer to the ideals of the French Revolution . Among his disciples were Abraham Capadose , Willem de Clercq , Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer , and especially Isaac da Costa , who called his teacher " anti-revolutionary , anti-Barneveldtian, anti-Loevesteinish, anti- liberal ". Bilderdijk died in Haarlem in

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