The Rime of the Ancient Mariner that the poem may have been inspired by the voyage of Thomas James into the Arctic. According to William Wordsworth, the poem was inspired while Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset. The discussion had turned to a book that Wordsworth was reading, "A Voyage Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea" (1726) by Captain George Shelvocke. In the book, a melancholy sailor, Simon Hatley, shoots a black albatross: As they discussed Shelvocke's book, Wordsworth proffers the following developmental critique to Coleridge, which importantly contains a reference
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,