00:00Two simple words that we use practically every day, but somehow they became the official noise of...
00:05I acknowledge your existence.
00:07And...
00:07I got no more use for this guy.
00:09So have you always wondered the origin of hello and goodbye?
00:13Initially, the word hello wasn't even a greeting.
00:16It was an exclamation, an expression of surprise.
00:18But the word got a serious rebrand with the arrival of the telephone.
00:24Thomas Edison convinced publishers of early phone books to explain proper telephone technique,
00:29including answering with a simple hello.
00:31And as for goodbye, that actually started as something much longer and much more spiritual.
00:37Once about a time when people parted ways, they would say,
00:40God be with ye.
00:41So over time, God be with ye got squeezed into...
00:46God why ye.
00:47And...
00:47Goodbye ye.
00:48And finally...
00:49Goodbye.
00:50Always wondered.
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