Too good to be true? Apparently the word "hello" was invented by Alexander Graham Bell so that people had something to say when they answered the telephone. They tinkered with "Ahoy" at first but it didn't work. I didn't make this up.
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Answers.com even has a word origin section! Very impressive. Well, at least somebody had the mind to shake things up a little back in the old and stuffy days! :) Ahoy! Related to this tidbit, did you know that there's actually a Speak Like a Pirate Day? It's a day when everybody's allowed to use Pirate language and nobody can say anything about it. Most bars in Europe actually participate in it, so I've heard...
Posted by: jen_chan, writer MemberSpeed.com | November 27, 2007 at 11:11 AM