At the time the telephone was invented Thomas Edison realized that people would need to greet the person on the other line so that they would know that a connection has been established and communication could occur freely between the two parties.
Now Thomas Edison's arch-rival, Alexander Graham Bell was using Ahoy-hoy as a telephone greeting. For some reason Thomas Edison rejected it (idiot!).
Furthermore, when people were greeting each other on the streets, they were saying "hullo." For some misreable and God-forsaken reason Edison decided to butcher hullo and exclaim "hello" like an idiot when using the telephone.
Edison was a mighty inventor, but not of words. A wordsmith he was not.
Ahoy-hoy!
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