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Where did the slang word "hella", meaning "very" or "a lot", originate?

✓ Northern California (Bay Area)
B Louisiana
C Maine
✕ The Texas Panhandle Your answer

Not quite.

"Hella" started in the Bay Area around Oakland in the 1970s and later spread across California and into wider youth slang.

Source: Merriam-Webster; Oxford English Dictionary entry for "hella"

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