geeta (chief accountant) 22 July 2011

Hello-Why do we say when we lift up the phone!!

Got it in mail so..

When you call someone and they answer the call... why do we say "HELLO..."...????

Do you know what is the real origin of using the word 'Hello' as the conversation starter in a phone call..???
It is the name of a GIRL..!!!

YES...!!!!!!!!!!!
And do you know who is that girl..??

Margaret Hello.....
She was the girlfriend of Graham Bell... the man who invented the telephone....
His first 2 instruments were at his and her place... and the first call he made to commercially test the phones was to his girlfriend..!!!!

One may forget the name of Graham Bell... but we will never be able to forget his girlfriend's name....!!!!

Now that my friend... is true LOVE..!!!!!

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Ms Liberal (others) 22 July 2011

True love persists forever

Dr. MPS RAMANI Ph.D.[Tech.] (Scientist/Engineer) 24 July 2011

After some time, say, 50 years or so, people may not know, why they say "dialling a number", 'redial " etc. Hope there will be a Geeta to explain then. When young I was wondering why Alexander Graham Bell had that name. I thought it was because he invented the telephone and when someone calls the telephone "BELL" rings. So people will remember not only the girl-friend Hello, but also Graham Bell himself as long as a telephone rings. Sorry, nowadays mobile phones have a silent vibration mode also.