We all know Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Did you know he expected people to answer the phone by saying, "ahoy?" It was famed inventor and noted buttinski, Thomas Edison, who suggested, "hello." Edison's case was strengthened by the first phone books. An early New Haven edition listed "hulloa" as the official greeting. The official ending, you might wonder? "That is all."
That is all.
For more, here's the article from NPR
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