Ahoy, Ahoy!

An interesting fact from the Dec 13 Economist regarding the origins of 'hello'.

When the telephone appeared in the 1870s, people worried about receiving calls from people to whom they had not been properly introduced. And what should one say when picking up the receiver? Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, suggested "Ahoy, ahoy". But as in many other respects, his ideas lost out to those of Thomas Edison, who preferred "Hello", an expression that was rarely used before the telephone but is now ubiquitous.

I bet you can guess how i'll be answering the phone from now on.