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There has been couple of times, that I wished, I had said,, Good Bye, instead of Hellow.!

Buon Giorno.It would probably have something to do with A.G.Bell's first response the first time a 'phone ever rang.Wouln't it?

Let me rephrase my question:  Can you guess the origin of "hello" with regards to answering the phone?

it would be bloody stupid to answer 'GOOD BYE'., other than that Bon Juno.

I know of people who answer the phone with  ..... yellow ? LOL

One of my friends says "Spik to me" (He's Spanish)

Hello, hello, hello........I don't know why you say goodbye---I say Hello.----a song by the late lendgendary George Harrison.

Hello. Hello. Hello! 

Why do we say "hello" when we answer the telephone?

The first word used to answer the phone was the nautical greeting "ahoy," because the first regular phone system was in the maritime state of Connecticut.  Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, answered with the Gaelic "hoy," but  it was Thomas Edison's greeting of "hello," an exclamation of surprise dating back to the Middle Ages, that caught on, and so we answer today with "Hello?"

CONGRATULATIONS TO Tommyh.  Da best answer!!!!!! Very close.

Only start when the phone was invent.

Its better then saying  YEP

because there didn't used to caller I D, So you had to say hello to see who the hell was on the other end of the line.

Because "why are you f**king bothering me" doesn't go over very well.

Especially if its Mom. :0

....culture/language

....evolving from a grunt/groan

Nowadays there is so much texting, skyping and emailing going on that people rarely talk on the phone anymore and when they do the word 'hello' is asked like a question ! HELLO???     LoL

I have no idea,i simply say "YO"..then take it from there..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..

I dont ,I just say leave a message ,if they are lucky,as i get untold cold callers,