hello ! (I say goodbye)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    This is surely a joke?  Who wrote this article--Allen Koenigsberg?  Woody=
> Allen?
>    Surely, someone remembers the 1834 "hello" I posted here, way back in the=
> pre-computer database days?

I actually contacted Mr. Koenigsberg (he's apparently a different person
from Woody Allen) a few years ago and told him about Barry's great
discoveries pushing back "hello" way before its supposed telephonic
origins.  Maybe this article was published before that...

Fred Shapiro


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