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Back when telephones were first used, what did people say when they answered the phone?


Can you remember if your Grandparents answered the phone without a Hello.
Example: My Uncle would answer and saw...Yell

Mister Ed !!! Is that you !!!! :-)

Back when I was a little girl at my grandparent's farm the telephone hung on the wall. Each family had different rings (sounds) when their phone rang.......ours was two longs and a short ring. People were cautious about what they said on the phone because there were usually three or four families on the same line and everybody "eavesdropped" in
on the others. Everybody knew what was going on in the little
community. lol All answered with; " hello".

I'll answer the first question.

"Ahoy!"

As for the second, I think my mother's father answered "Yes, who is this?" I don't think my father's mother ever answered the phone, but if she had she would have said "Oui?" I was too young to know my other grandparents.

When I was little all the adults would answer "Hello."

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