Greg Jenner
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A hoi hoi.
Yeah, he wanted a hoi hoi.
That's great.
That's really good.
Ewan, why do we say hello on the telephone?
Because it's one of the most popular words on the planet, which is remarkable because it's quite a newish word.
It's a newish word.
I mean, like a hoi hoi.
But they're both hailing words, aren't they?
A hoi hoi is what you say to a sailor when you're hailing them.
And in America, hello was a hailing word.
Hello!
Yes.
So they're communicating at a distance.
Yeah, because it carries.
If you were shouting across a field, hello would carry.
But in the UK, hello was a phrase of surprise.
If I bumped into you on holiday, if the two of us were in the same cafe in Italy, we'd be like, hello, what are you doing here?
So it was a word that existed already.
And your bow heart gets everywhere.