Apparently “ahoy” was a common greeting before the telephone was invented, to the point that Alexander Graham Bell suggested it for use when answering the phone.
Ahoy was common enough that the Simpsons had their oldest phone user answer with "Ahoy hoy?"
I think that gag was referencing Graham Bell’s suggestion.
Confirmation this is the worst timeline.
Ahoy is the superior greeting. I support its return to standard use.
There are countries in the world, where you enter a room in the morning full of dear and beloved friends and colleagues, and you would neither greet them nor make eye contact until they wanted something from you.
I don’t know whether this would be my heaven or my hell, but as a brit, useless smalltalk is practically baked into my bones.
While it wasn’t a general greeting, “halloo” was already used as a verb meaning “to call for a hunting” in the 14th century.
also as an exclamation of surprise, like “halloo, what’s this?”
“hello” is still occasionally used in this sense today.
found the german
idk if you’re joking but not German; it was indeed halloo or holloo in English before hello became standard
“halloo, what’s this?”
“haaaallooooo” is used a lot by Germans as a slow exclamation to mean “hey idiot, what are you doing?”
It’s used this way in American English sometimes, as in a teen issuing a counterpoint “HellOOOOoooo”
Phones weren’t invented in 1825, this meme picture is historically inaccurate.
Except, nowhere in the meme is stated that. The meme is about “the first attested writing” of the word hello.
