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‘Hammajang’ is Now a Word in the Oxford English Dictionary

Get stoked—you can now legitimately use Hawaiian Pidgin words “hammajang” and “howzit” in your Scrabble game. As part of the Oxford English Dictionary’s 90th anniversary celebrations, the respected reference asked the public last year for regional vocabulary suggestions, and the word “hammajang,” used in Pidgin to indicate that something is “all messed up, askew or wonky,”

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