Howdy

Howdy is a greeting, whose origin lies in the American South. It is a contraction of the English greeting How do you do? , Which ye in the Southern dialect How do? is reproduced. The first use of the greeting is suspected in the years 1820-1840.

Today, the greeting, regardless of its origin, used in country, western and trucker scene. Thus, the term coined for example, a regional radio program of MDR 1 (Radio Thuringia) and 911 - your talk show in Energy.