Today, the phone has become an integral part of our everyday life. Until recently, it seemed like a miracle, capable of reproducing a person’s voice at a considerable distance. Today, the phone is a mobile multifunctional multimedia “harvester”. Of course, he did not lose his main function, even if the connection became digital, having received video support.
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It is easy to guess what the majority says, taking a phone call: “Hello!” (ale). This word became so familiar that it received new meanings, sometimes slang. Where did it come from, and what does it originally mean? Frankly, few people know this.
In the distant days, when telephony was only being introduced into the life of a person, each of its users had to follow quite clear prescribed rules. Initially, the phone was far from a mass tool – only the richest and most influential people could afford it. That is why then every improvement in the technology of voice transmission at a distance became an event that brought telephony closer to the masses.
And although Alexander Bell is considered the inventor of the phone, the development of this technology, its improvement and popularization was carried out by the famous American inventor Thomas Edison. It was he who designated the very popular word with which telephone conversations now begin in half the countries of the planet.
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Where did the word “Hello” come from?
In 1877, Edison corresponded with the president of one of the telegraph companies. It was about introducing clear rules when using a new device to receive and transmit voice messages. Edison himself suggested starting the conversation with the word “hullo.” But the inventor of the phone, Alexander Bell, had a different point of view. He considered it appropriate to use the word ahoy as the beginning of a conversation. That is the English word that greets each other with the teams of ships that met at sea (they shouted him into a shout at another ship in order to start a conversation). As a result, the Edison version has taken root, and we use it today. Our “hello” is a Russified “hullo”. It is interesting that the word did not even come to Russia directly from America, but in transit through Europe. There, the overseas “hullo” was subjected to dialect processing, giving rise to both “Hello” and “Ale”.
But the idea of Edison found understanding not in all countries. For example, in Spain, a conversation begins with “diga” (say), in Japan “mosi-mosi” (say-say), and in China – “wei” (hey), in Korea – “yoboseeyo” (short for “yogi seee ”(“ Look here ”)), the Arabs prefer“ marhab ”(hello), in Israel -“ shalom ”(peace).
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