Who was "Hello"?

When anyone calls us at first we say “hello!!” But what is Hello? Is there any person behind the word? Some people thought that hello was the girlfriend of famous scientist and the inventor of telephone Alexander Graham Bell. But really it is? Mabel Hubbard was Bell's girlfriend who he later married in 1877. The telephone was patented in 1876.Alexander Graham Bell actually never used the term "hello" . The first call he made was to his assistant who was in the adjoining room and he said "Come-here. I want to see you. The word "Hello" actually came from "Hola" which meant to stop and pay attention. Alexander Bell preferred to use  “Ahoy" as in the ships those days which co-incidentally was misheard by Edison.

In 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburgh:

“Friend David, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away. What you think?”

In the middle of the ocean, in night time, when the sailors on different boats couldn’t see each other, they said ‘Ahoy! Hoy.’ to ask how they were.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of Telephones decided to use that word as a greeting on the phone. People didn’t like it. Thomas Edison, while making changes in Telephone Technology suggested the word ‘Halloo!’. People eventually made it ‘Hello’. Hello came into existence in the mid-1800s. It is an alteration of hallo, which was an alteration of holla or hollo. These words were used to attract immediate attention and demand that the listener come to a stop or cease what he or she was doing.  Hallo was used to incite hunting dogs.

Hello gained widespread usage though the increased use of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell had originally suggested the telephone greeting ahoy. But the greeting that stuck was hello, which may have been suggested by Thomas Edison. Hello-girls were the name for the central telephone exchange operators. Hullo is the interjection used in Great Britain. However, hello has become just as common.

A more modern use of the word calls into question the common sense or comprehension of the person being addressed. For example, “You’re actually going to eat that rotten peach?! "Hello!” One might assume that “Hi” is an abbreviation of hello. In fact, the first recorded use of “Hi” as a greeting comes from an 1862 speech given by a Kansas Indian. It is also thought that hi is probably a variant of the Middle English hy. So it's the mystery of the word “Hello”!!