Oh, Hello There, Norwich! First Recorded Use Of Hello In Norwich Paper
Oxford English Dictionary: First to print 'hello,' was Norwich Courier, c. 1826. But Thomas Edison's phone popularized the greeting's usage. NORWIC...
Oxford English Dictionary: First to print 'hello,' was Norwich Courier, c. 1826. But Thomas Edison's phone popularized the greeting's usage. NORWICH, CT — Hello? Yes, it's a big deal, actually. The word used every day across the globe—hello—was first printed, and then soon became part of every day life, in the then-Norwich Courier in 1826, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The Norwich Courier, a weekly newspaper, was published from 1809 to 1845. In an NPR report, it's noted that the Oxford English Dictionary explained that the word, at the time anyway, was not exactly the greeting that's been for around for almost 200 years, officially.