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Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications in the U.S. as early as the 18 October 1826 edition of the Norwich Courier of Norwich, Connecticut.^[1] Another early use was an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee,^[2] which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette.^[3] The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.^[4]