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

[Robert Fitzke]

In the early 30s my dad frequently, and clearly, called me "bub"; my name is
Robert so it may have been a variation on Bob.

Bob
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From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: hollo / hullo/ hello / hi / hey as simple greetings


> 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
>
> >
> >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?
> >>
>