Re: Not a name, but...
And didn't Hamlet call someone - Horatio? - by saying: "Hillo, hollo, hollo"? This is explained as being how one called a trained raptor down form the sky, but if a prince of Denmark could generalise from that to a greeting for humans, why not others?
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Not a name, but...  ·  Yahalome  ·  10/31/2002, 2:27 PM
Thanks, all...  ·  Yahalome  ·  11/2/2002, 1:27 PM
Re: Not a name, but...  ·  Pavlos  ·  11/1/2002, 5:19 AM
Re: Not a name, but...  ·  Anneza  ·  11/1/2002, 5:48 AM
Re: Not a name, but...  ·  Satu  ·  11/1/2002, 3:10 AM
A possible explanation  ·  AVIAD  ·  10/31/2002, 4:48 PM
Re: Not a name, but...  ·  Holly  ·  10/31/2002, 4:03 PM
Re: Not a name, but...  ·  Toni  ·  10/31/2002, 3:52 PM
English has roots in just about everything! :) n/t  ·  Yahalome  ·  11/2/2002, 1:20 PM