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Hello

Goodbye. Hello. Oxford dictionary says: Used as a greeting when you meet somebody, when you answer the telephone or when you want to attract somebody's attention ( British English) used to show that you are surprised by something

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Hello

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  1. Goodbye Hello Oxford dictionary says: Used as a greeting when you meet somebody, when you answer the telephone or when you want to attract somebody's attention (British English) used to show that you are surprised by something (Informal) used to show that you think somebody has said something stupid or is not paying attention Alex

  2. Kon-nichiwa (to our Japanese friends) • An-nyong Ha-se-yo (to our Korean friends) • Salve / Salvëte (to our Latin speaking ancient Roman friends) • Ni hao (to our Mandarin speaking Chinese friends) • Hallo (to our Norwegian friends) • Dzien' dobry (to our Polish friends) • Olá (to our Portuguese friends) • Bunãziua (to our Romanian friends) • Zdravstvuyte (to our Russian friends) Hei (to our Finnish friends) Bonjour (to our French friends) Guten Tag (to our German friends) Gia'sou (to our Greek friends) Aloha (to our Hawaiian friends) Shalom (to our Hebrew speaking friends) Namaste (to our Hindi speaking friends) Jónapot (to our Hungarian friends) Halló / Góðandaginn (to our Icelandic friends) Halo (to our Indonesian friends) Aksunai / Qanuipit? (to our Inuit friends) Diadhuit (to our Irish friends) Salve / Ciao (to our Italian friends) Hola (to our Spanish speaking friends) Jambo / Hujambo (to our Swahili friends) Hej (to our Swedish friends) Sa-wat-dee (to our Thai friends) Merhaba / Selam (to our Turkish friends) Vitayu (to our Ukrainian friends) Xinchào (to our Vietnamese friends) Hylo; Sut Mae? (to our Welsh friends) SholemAleychem (to our Yiddish speaking friends) Sawubona (to our Zulu speaking friends Mirëdita (to our Albanian friends) Ahalan (to our Arabic speaking friends) Parev (to our Armenian friends) Zdravei / Zdrasti (to our Bulgarian friends) Nei Ho (to our Cantonese speaking Chinese friends) Dobrý den / Ahoj (to our Czech friends) Goddag (to our Danish friends) Goede dag, Hallo (to our Dutch friends) Hello (to our English friends) Saluton (to our Esperanto speaking friends) In different languages

  3. Origin of English Hello The word hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ It’s first use was in 1833 in a book called “The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee”

  4. History Hello may be derived from hullo, which the American Merriam-Webster dictionary describes as a "chiefly British variant of hello Hello is alternatively thought to come from the word hallo Hallo is also German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Afrikaans for Hello. Thomas Edison was the first to use hello as a telephone greeting

  5. People Who use Hello Hello, And Yes We Can!

  6. Sources http://www.athropolis.com/hello2.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/hello http://www.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

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