hollo / hullo/ hello / hi / hey as simple greetings

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:29 PM -0500 2/23/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Wasn't there a character who lived in "Allen's Alley" who said....
>Nope. That character said "Howdy, bub," not "Hey, bub."
>
>-Wilson

I believe it was Ann Landers (although it may have also been Dear
Abby, her twin) who was especially fond of the "Bub" salutation, as
in "Wake up and smell the coffee, Bub".  WAG:  could Ann, nee Eppie
Lederer from a nice Jewish family in Chicago, have truncated "Bub"
from "Bubbeleh"?

larry

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>On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
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>>I've got a new one (to me, at least):  A grad student told me "Hey,
>>bub!"
>>is commonly used among his friends, and the office assistant,
>>listening in,
>>said he uses it all the time.  (Both are 25-30, white.)  I asked if
>>"bub"
>>came from "bubba," and neither one knew; they've just absorbed it as a
>>new
>>address term for a friend, male or female.  Any comments?
>>