Hello Girls

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3 mentions 3 recordings first heard Feb 2025 last heard 26 Jun ↑1 vs the 6 months before

Term for early female telephone operators, also a 1878‑era nickname

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Greg JennerYou're Dead to Me · History of the Telephone (Radio Edit) · 21:02 · 26 Jun
…The Hello Girls.…
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ChuckStuff You Should Know · Switchboards: Please Hold While We Connect You · 31:31 · Mar 2025
…They were called Hello Girls. Ironic since apparently they weren't even allowed to say hello. We'll get to that in a second. And Emma Nutt was the first phone operator, switchboard operator hired by AGB in 1878 at a whopping wage of about a nickel an hour.…
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KinseyThe LOL Podcast · Harper Made Kate Cry! · 6:46 · Feb 2025
…Hello Girls would have been so much more successful.…
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