Cubist
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Joined: Oct. 2007
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"Hail from" is the proper phrase when you're talking about where (or "when", in this case) someone, or something, came from. The phrase was originally nautical jargon—ships were said to "hail from" New York, or Exeter, or wherever—and it crept into landlubber usage somewhere along the way. "Hale from" is UD News being careless. I expect she either didn't check it at all, or else just waved her computer's spellcheck over it and accepted the machine's "yep, no spelling errors here" not-judgement.
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