{"id":3159,"date":"2013-06-21T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T02:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2013-06-27T21:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T01:18:23","slug":"ring-ring-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/ring-ring-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Ring&#8230; Hello?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who coined the famous phone greeting: hello?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking Alexander Graham Bell (or Lionel Richie), then you&#8217;re wrong. Thomas Edison actually came up with &#8220;Hello&#8221; as a telephone greeting! Alexander Graham Bell may have invented the telephone, but he didn\u2019t come up with the most popular greeting during a phone call.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-4z4xI16slvU\/UaTR81rfk7I\/AAAAAAAAWic\/lRTkBFmnulE\/s1600\/hello.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A fierce rivalry (okay, maybe fierce is a strong word) between Bell and Edison came about over the correct way to answer a call. Bell proclaimed \u201cAhoy\u201d was the one and only way to answer a call correctly. Luckily Edison created a never-ending campaign (not really) to spread \u201cHello\u201d among the masses. By 1880, Thomas was proclaimed the winner in the relentless telephone greeting war!<\/p>\n<p>But wait! Alexander Graham Bell has kept a few rebels on his payroll. Some may know this gentleman as the scrooge of Springfield: Mr. Burns. If you\u2019re a regular viewer of <i>The Simpsons <\/i>then you won\u2019t be shocked by the correlation between Bell and Burns. When Mr. Burns answers the phone, his standard greeting is \u201cAhoy-hoy.\u201d (Fight the power!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SWleZY-8evw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Fun Fact:<\/b> The first published phone book contained a tutorial on proper phone etiquette. \u201cHello\u201d was listed in the &#8220;How To&#8221; section as the official greeting for phone calls. Users were told to offer \u201ca firm and cheery \u2018hulloa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, our \u201cHello\u201d must now come to a \u201cGood-bye.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: Who coined the famous phone greeting: hello? If you&#8217;re thinking Alexander Graham Bell (or Lionel Richie),&#8230;","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[252,136,76,11],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-american-english","tag-bad-language","tag-comedy","tag-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetrainers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}