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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?
Modern Wisdom
The Origins of Hello and Ahoy
Alexander Bell and Thomas Edison were having a little war at the beginning of the phone creation about what should be the way that you get someone's attention on the other line. Alexander Bell who had created a similar technology is Edison but for a competing group he thought Ahoy made more sense so people used to say Ahoy when they entered the phone. In the first phone book when they were giving instructions about how to use the phone instead of Ahoy they suggested hello as an answer.
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