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Re: allo? said by jack b:A little history: 'Allo' was one of the greetings Thomas Edison toyed with using for answering the early telephone,(a technology he perfected by inventing the carbon microphone) before settling on 'hello'. I saw on TV a long time ago that "hoy hoy" was a greeting Bell considered:
»www.bizjournals.com/wichita/stor···ts.html:
• For some unknown reason, Bell wanted callers to answer the phone by saying "hoy, hoy." Thankfully, Thomas Edison wanted, and got, the choice of a simple "hello." (And a couple of years ago, it was changed to "whassup?")
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=HOY+HOY+PHONE |
