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Something Rhymes with Purple

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What Are You Going to Say to Your Friends?

Giles: Hello is less than 200 years old. I would think that because hey, it's still quite part of the hip lexicon today,. whereas hello sounds much more old-fashioned. We've been using similar formulations really to greet each other since Anglo-Saxon times. Most of them beginning with a letter H. So take it away. What are we going to talk about? Hi. Hello. Well, if I was to ask you, which is the older word, hey, or hello, which one do you think you'd go for?

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