Bueno phone answer
Why do Spanish users answer the phone "Bueno"
6 Answers
When I was a kid I was told the reason we say Bueno started back when an operator was needed to make any phone call. She would make a destination phone ring when a call was made and as soon as the person answered he would say Bueno to let the operator know to stop ringing. Even though it´s still very common (in Mexico) we also say Diga or sometimes just Sí.
There isn't a reason is just a way to answer as you can say "yes" when answering the phone.
In Nicaragua they always say 'hello' which we might consider to be an English word but read below to see the etymology.
This excerpt from Wikipedia is quite interesting ...
Telephone The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo.[9] Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.[10][11] However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburgh: Friend David, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away. What you think? Edison - P.S. first cost of sender & receiver to manufacture is only $7.00.[12] By 1889, central telephone exchange operators were known as 'hello-girls' due to the association between the greeting and the telephone.[11
And perhaps it's more a case of us borrowing the word in English than the other way around ...
Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo,[5] which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman."[6] It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there').[7] As in addition to hello, halloo,[8] hallo, hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.[citation needed]
I wondered the same thing when I came to Mexico. I thought it might be a shortening of buenos dias, buenas tardes, buenas noches. Then I thought it might be okay as bueno is used to say that here. But maybe anormal is right it is just Yes!.
i say Hola :D
In Spain they usually say '' Dime'' or ' Digame'', but then, I usually say ''Hello'', but sometimes I just say '' Yes?''
