When Graham Bell, one of the inventors of the telephone, first used his invention in 1876, he didn’t say “Hello”! He told his friend Watson “Watson, come here! to invite him to join him in his office.
When the telephone was developed in the United States, people very quickly said “Hallo” (with an h) or “Hello! (meaning “hello!” or “Hi!”) when someone was on the phone, and the operators were called “hello girls”!
But Hello may be of origin…
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