The Rime of the Ancient Mariner autobiographical portrait of Coleridge himself, comparing the mariner's loneliness with Coleridge's own feelings of loneliness expressed in his letters and journals. In addition to being referred to in several other notable works, due to the popularity of the poem the phrase "albatross around one's neck" has become an English language idiom referring to "a heavy burden of guilt that becomes an obstacle to success". Monty Python's "Albatross Sketch" in which an irascible movie-theatre refreshment vendor tries to sell a single albatross from a tray around his neck, is a parody of Coleridge's description of the Mariner. The phrase "Water, water,
Hello in publications as early as 1803. The word "hullo" is still in use, with the meaning "hello". "Hello" is alternatively thought to come from the word "hallo" (1840) via "hollo" (also "holla", "holloa", "halloo", "halloa"). The definition of "hollo" is to shout or an exclamation originally shouted in a hunt when the quarry was spotted: Fowler's has it that "hallo" is first recorded "as a shout to call attention" in 1864. It is used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" written in 1798: In many Germanic languages, including German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Afrikaans,