A Facebook post falsely links the origins of the greeting ‘hello’ to the name of the telephone inventor’s girlfriend. Bell’s fiancée and eventual wife was actually named Mabel Hubbard.
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A Facebook post falsely links the origins of the greeting ‘hello’ to the name of the telephone inventor’s girlfriend. Bell’s fiancée and eventual wife was actually named Mabel Hubbard., inventor of the telephone, was named Margaret Hello, and this led to the customary use of the greeting “hello” in phone calls. The claim can be found in a July 2 post on the Facebook page “The Fraternal Order of Eagles – Philippine Eagles.
The post then claims that “hello” originated from the name of Bell’s fiancée, Margaret Hello, and that this was the first word Bell spoke over the phone. Bell’s fiancée was not named Margaret Hello, and “hello” was not what he said in the first-ever phone call., whom Bell married in 1877. She is the woman shown in the picture on the Facebook post. According to anmade on March 10, 1876. Instead, his first words were to his assistant Thomas Watson, who was in the adjoining room: “Mr.
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