My name is John and today I am going to talk about…ĭo you like my articles and lesson plans? It could be your opening line - Hello, it’s nice to meet you all. You could also use this when making a presentation to people you don’t know. So you might say - Hello, it’s nice to meet you. You can use this for the very first time you meet someone or you are introduced to someone. You will find that service staff will use this expression to greet you as you enter a restaurant or hotel in the evening. You might say this as you meet people for dinner - or as a greeting to anyone that you meet in the evening. Just remember that this is like saying Hello but you only use it between the hours of 12:00pm and 5:00pm and you’re good.Īnd this is the same as Good Morning and Good Afternoon, except you use it in the evening. When you go to work in the morning, there is no need to say Good Afternoon to your colleagues after lunch. This is the same as Good Morning, but of course, said in the afternoon.Īny time you meet or greet someone for the first time that day, you can say Good Afternoon. You can also use this when you see your neighbours in the morning. In English-speaking countries, colleagues say Good Morning to each other as they arrive at work. You can use it any time from early in the morning to before midday. Of course, only use this when you are greeting someone in the morning. This is used in formal situations, but it can be used any time you greet someone. Essentially, these are all terms used to call attention-they’re short and easy to say-that evolved into the greetings we use today.This is the standard opening word that everyone knows. Hi developed from the Middle English hy, similar to hey and ha. In fact, it was recorded a lot earlier than hello. Hi is equivalent to hello, but it is considered a little bit more informal in tone. (Interesting trivia: h ello-girls was the name for the central telephone exchange operators.) What about other greetings?
Supposedly his rival Thomas Edison suggested hello, while Bell stubbornly clung to ahoy, and well-you know which one stuck around. When the telephone was invented, Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to use the word ahoy as a greeting. For example, “You’re actually going to eat that rotten peach?! Hello!” Why do we answer the phone with hello? This spelling i s considered an Americanism, while hullo is a variant that is more commonly seen in Great Britain.Ī more modern use of the word hello calls into question the common sense or comprehension of the person being addressed. Because it’s such a common word, we might have expected that greeting to be recorded earlier. Hello as used as an everyday greeting is recorded since at least the 1850s. Some of these may sound more familiar than others. Hallo comes from the Middle French holá (from ho! “ahoy” and la “there”), so you could say that when you say hello, you’re actually saying “Ahoy there!”Īmazingly, there are countless variations of these words, including: halloo, halloa, halow, hillo, holler, hollo, holloa, hollow, and hullo. It was also used to spur on hunting dogs. Hello is considered a variant on a number of other similar words-like hallo, holla, and hollo -that were used to hail and shout to gain attention and recorded prior to the 1800s.įor example, the word hallo demanded that the listener come to a stop or cease what he or she was doing. While use of the term hello dates back earlier, it isn’t recorded with this exact spelling until the 1800s. But as prevalent as the word is, it is relatively new. We use hello several times a day to greet people or attract attention.
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