→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundO→“ahoy-hoy” was Alexander Graham Bell’s preferred way to answer the phone. Ahoy-hoy derives from the term “ahoy”, which is generally associated with being a nautical term used for hailing ships. However, there is also significant evidence that it was popularly used as a way to more or less say “hello” in non-nautical situations. Further, “hoy” was commonly used as far back as the 14th century as a call to use while driving cattle. This precedes the first known instance of it being used in the nautical sense, attached with a leading ‘a’ sound (“a-hoy”). Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/10/saying-ahoy-hoy-was-at-one-time-the-preferred-way-to-answer-the-phone/ Sources: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2027/whats-the-origin-of-ahoy http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahoy-hoy http://books.google.com/books?id=RZsOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=hello&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1400&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1838&num=100&as_brr=0&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahoy_%28greeting%29 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahoy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone#Telephone_Pioneers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXSw07zrio http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdbell.htm http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hello