Why do people say hello when answering the phone?
By blessing2u
@blessing2u (496)
Philippines
October 21, 2009 12:28am CST
In my country, though we don't speak english as our main language, we usually say "Hello" whenever we answer the phone or call someone. I understand it is a greeting but why can't we speak some other words instead of hello. Do you have any translation for the word hello in your dialect? I think that it's true in many countries. Are you using hello all the time?
2 responses
@ced_cap (207)
• Philippines
21 Oct 09
hi blessing2u. I learned from watching tv in one country ( i just forgot what country it is) that instead of saying "hello" they would say "heaveno". the explanation is that there's a word hell in the word hello they say it's "hell-o". So they replace it from "hell-o" to "heaven-o". So next time you pick up the phone and greet somebody on the line, you can now say "heaven-o" instead of "hell-o".
