Podcast: Lee Kyle’s 21 Questions – with Jack Gardner

Hello. Jack Gardner is the guest on this week’s 21 Questions podcast.

Did you know that the word ‘hello’ wasn’t invented until after the invention of the telephone and was first used as a greeting on said telephone?  Sounds like a lie, doesn’t it, but I’m pretty sure it’s true.  I’ll look it up.  Hang on…

Yep, no record of it before the 1860s. Weird that isn’t it? It feels like  a word that has always been around.

People go on about Shaekespeare* being a genius ‘cos he invented loads of words but he couldn’t even think of one as comparatively workaday as hello. Fucking idiot.

*I didn’t spell Shakespeare wrong then. He spelled it loads of different ways.​