evidence: A post claiming that "Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, used ‘Hello’ as the first word during his initial test of the device. ‘Hello’ was the name of his fiancé, Margaret Hello. This word quickly became the standard greeting for phone calls worldwide and is still used today" is being shared on social media (here, here, and here). Let’s verify the claim made in the post. Claim: Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, introduced the word ‘hello’ as a common telephone greeting, naming it after his fiancé, Margaret Hello. [...] To sum up, the origin of the word "hello" is not linked to Alexander Graham Bell’s fiancée.