Take a look at what's going on, at The Town Crier!
Apparently the word 'hello' was invented for use on the telephone, so people had something to say. Didn't exist before then.I love studying language change at the moment
In 1997, Leonso Canales Jr. from Kingsville, Texas convinced Kleberg County commissioners to designate "heaven-o" as the county's official greeting, on the grounds that the greeting "hello" contains the word "hell", and that the proposed alternative sounds more "positive". "Hello", however, is not etymologically related to "hell".