IEEE - Alexander Graham Bell originally suggested 'ahoy-hoy' be adopted as the standard greeting when answering a telephone. Ahoy-hoy derives from the term “ahoy”, which is generally thought of as a nautical
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BSNL India on Twitter: "#DoYouKnow Alexander Graham Bell originally wanted the greeting for the telephone to be "Ahoy" but Thomas Edison voted for "Hello", a word he coined in 1877. https://t.co/PcCGwh3oJC" /
The Lakewood School - Did you know ? “Ahoy” was the original telephone greeting.old-telephone. Alexander Graham Bell suggested 'ahoy' (as used in ships), but was later superseded by Thomas Edison, who suggested '
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