Question: Who introduced the word hello as the proper way to answer a telephone call? Answer: The use of the word “hello” as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison. Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone in 1885, never liked ‘hello’ and advocated the use of ‘ahoy’ as a telephonic greeting. Hello quickly became the standard as the first telephone exchanges, equipped by Edison, were set up across the United States and operating manuals adopted the word. By 1889, central telephone exchange operators were known as hello-girls due to the association between the greeting and the telephone. Trivia Fact of the Day: A mosquito has 47 teeth.
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