HELLO!!!!

I would like to send out a huge HELLO to everyone round the world!

Did you know that...
-November 21st is World Hello Day?
-World Hello Day began in 1973 in response to the conflict between Egypt & Israel?
-Over 180 countries celebrate World Hello Day?
-That hello is an alt. of hallo, itself an alt of holla,hollo,a shout to attract attention, first recorded in 1588. Perhaps from holla! "stop, cease." Popularity as a greeting coincides with use of the telephone, where it won out over Alexander Graham Bell's suggestion, ahoy?
-Central telephone operators were known as hello-girls?

Hello from Shaileen!