What's the difference between hollo and hullo?

Hollo


Definition:

  • (interj. & n.) Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.
  • (interj.) To call out or exclaim; to halloo. This form is now mostly replaced by hello.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The work is an extension of research carried out by Hollos and Cowan in Norway.

Hullo


Definition:

  • (interj.) See Hollo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Mary McCarthy’s book The Group, set in the 1930s, the girls made a lot of fuss about their Dutch caps, and when I interviewed her once she said that when she had visited Bernard Berenson in Italy he greeted her with: “Hullo Mary, have you brought your pessary?” Not thinking an elderly gay art critic ought to talk like that, she replied: “No, I haven’t done anything on Pissarro recently…” The pill is the most recent contraceptive, but not the only one, thank goodness.

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