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	''Hella'' was included on the [[BBC]]'s list of 20 words that sum up the 2000–2009 decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word ''very''".<ref>{{Cite news \|date=December 14, 2009 \|title=A Portrait of the Decade \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409040.stm \|access-date=2009-12-14 \|publisher=BBC}}</ref>		''Hella'' was included on the [[BBC]]'s list of 20 words that sum up the 2000–2009 decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word ''very''".<ref>{{Cite news \|date=December 14, 2009 \|title=A Portrait of the Decade \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409040.stm \|access-date=2009-12-14 \|publisher=BBC}}</ref>

	Paralleling the use of the [[minced oath]] ''heck'', some people use ''hecka'' in place of ''hella''.<ref name="Eghan" /> Younger school children may be required to use this form.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Chawkins \|first=Steve \|date=2010-07-06 \|title=Physics major has a name for a really big number \|url=~~http~~://~~articles~~.latimes.com/~~2010~~/jul/06~~/local/~~la-me-hella-20100706 \|access-date=2014-04-05 \|work=Los Angeles Times \|quote=Sendek, who was forced to use hecka as a child...}}</ref> Church culture in Northern California also encouraged usage of ''hecka'' over ''hella''.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 24, 2014 \|title=How To Use Hella (RE: Language & Slang) \|url=https://hitrecord.org/records/1595149 \|access-date=2020-04-09 \|publisher=HITRECORD}}</ref>		Paralleling the use of the [[minced oath]] ''heck'', some people use ''hecka'' in place of ''hella''.<ref name="Eghan" /> Younger school children may be required to use this form.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Chawkins \|first=Steve \|date=2010-07-06 \|title=Physics major has a name for a really big number \|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jul-06-la-me-hella-20100706-story.html \|access-date=2014-04-05 \|work=Los Angeles Times \|quote=Sendek, who was forced to use hecka as a child...}}</ref> Church culture in Northern California also encouraged usage of ''hecka'' over ''hella''.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 24, 2014 \|title=How To Use Hella (RE: Language & Slang) \|url=https://hitrecord.org/records/1595149 \|access-date=2020-04-09 \|publisher=HITRECORD}}</ref>

	The [[Prince (musician)\|Prince]] song "[[U Got The Look]]," released in 1987 on the album ''[[Sign o' the Times]]'', features the lyric "your body's hecka slammin'...", which would appear to be an early adoption of the term ''hecka'' in its accepted vernacular usage.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Grant \|first=Sarah \|date=2017-06-07 \|title=Sheila E. Remembers Private Life With Prince, Wild 'Purple Rain' Parties \|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/sheila-e-on-princes-wooing-wild-purple-rain-parties-w486152 \|access-date=2017-06-12 \|work=Rolling Stone Magazine \|quote=It's an Oakland thing.}}</ref>		The [[Prince (musician)\|Prince]] song "[[U Got The Look]]," released in 1987 on the album ''[[Sign o' the Times]]'', features the lyric "your body's hecka slammin'...", which would appear to be an early adoption of the term ''hecka'' in its accepted vernacular usage.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Grant \|first=Sarah \|date=2017-06-07 \|title=Sheila E. Remembers Private Life With Prince, Wild 'Purple Rain' Parties \|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/sheila-e-on-princes-wooing-wild-purple-rain-parties-w486152 \|access-date=2017-06-12 \|work=Rolling Stone Magazine \|quote=It's an Oakland thing.}}</ref>

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	'''''Hella''''' is an [[American English]] slang term originating in and often associated with [[East Bay\|San Francisco's East Bay area]] in California, possibly specifically emerging in the 1970s [[African-American Vernacular English \|African-American vernacular]] of [[Oakland, California\|Oakland]].<ref>{{cite thesis \|last=Boboc \|first=Wellesley \|title=To Hella and Back: A Syntactic Analysis of ''hella'' in Dialects of American English \|url=https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/linguistics/documents/Boboc%20Thesis_Final.pdf \|type=Senior honors thesis (undergraduate) \|date=April 2016 \|page=11 \|publisher=New York University}}</ref><ref name="Eghan">{{Cite news \|last=Eghan \|first=Adizah \|date=November 17, 2016 \|title=The Origins of 'Hella' \|url=https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/17/the-origins-of-hella \|work=KQED}}</ref> It is used as an intensifying adverb such as in "hella bad" or "hella good". It was eventually added to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' in 2002, citing a 1987 first use in the [[Toronto Star]].<ref name="Eghan" /><ref name="OED">{{Cite encyclopedia \|year=2002 \|title=hella, adv. and adj. \|encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|edition=Third}}</ref> It is possibly a [[contraction (grammar)\|contraction]] of the phrase "hell of a" or "hell of a lot [of]", in turn reduced to "hell of",<ref name="OED" /> though some scholars doubt this etymology since its grammatical usage does not align with those phrases; or of "hellacious".<ref name="Eghan" /> It often appears in place of the words "really", "a lot", "totally", "very", and in some cases, "yes". Whereas ''hell of a'' is generally used with a [[noun]], according to linguist [[Pamela Munro]], ''hella'' is primarily used to modify an [[adjective]] such as "good".<ref name="VOA">{{Cite news \|date=2002-12-19 \|title=Campus Slang \|url=https://www.manythings.org/voa/wm/wm185.html \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|publisher=[[Voice of America]]}}</ref>		'''''Hella''''' is an [[American English]] slang term originating in and often associated with [[East Bay\|San Francisco's East Bay area]] in [[northern California]], possibly specifically emerging in the 1970s [[African-American Vernacular English \|African-American vernacular]] of [[Oakland, California\|Oakland]].<ref>{{cite thesis \|last=Boboc \|first=Wellesley \|title=To Hella and Back: A Syntactic Analysis of ''hella'' in Dialects of American English \|url=https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/linguistics/documents/Boboc%20Thesis_Final.pdf \|type=Senior honors thesis (undergraduate) \|date=April 2016 \|page=11 \|publisher=New York University}}</ref><ref name="Eghan">{{Cite news \|last=Eghan \|first=Adizah \|date=November 17, 2016 \|title=The Origins of 'Hella' \|url=https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/17/the-origins-of-hella \|work=KQED}}</ref> It is used as an intensifying adverb such as in "hella bad" or "hella good". It was eventually added to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' in 2002, citing a 1987 first use in the ''[[Toronto Star]]''.<ref name="Eghan" /><ref name="OED">{{Cite encyclopedia \|year=2002 \|title=hella, adv. and adj. \|encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|edition=Third}}</ref> It is possibly a [[contraction (grammar)\|contraction]] of the phrase "hell of a" or "hell of a lot [of]", in turn reduced to "hell of",<ref name="OED" /> though some scholars doubt this etymology since its grammatical usage does not align with those phrases; or of "hellacious".<ref name="Eghan" /> It often appears in place of the words "really", "a lot", "totally", "very", and in some cases, "yes". Whereas ''hell of a'' is generally used with a [[noun]], according to linguist [[Pamela Munro]], ''hella'' is primarily used to modify an [[adjective]] such as "good".<ref name="VOA">{{Cite news \|date=2002-12-19 \|title=Campus Slang \|url=https://www.manythings.org/voa/wm/wm185.html \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|publisher=[[Voice of America]]}}</ref>

	According to lexicographer Allan A. Metcalf, the word is a marker of [[northern California]] dialect.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Allan A. Metcalf \|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618043637 \|title=How We Talk: American Regional English Today \|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] Reference Books \|year=2000 \|isbn=0-618-04362-4 \|url-access=registration}}</ref> According to Colleen Cotter, "[[Southern California]]ns know the term ... but rarely use it." Sometimes the term ''grippa'' is used to mock "NorCal" dialect, with the actual meaning being the opposite of hella.{{Clarify\|date=April 2021}}<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Colleen Cotter \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSkUXkI14pAC \|title=USA Phrasebook \|publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] \|year=2001 \|isbn=978-1-86450-182-7}}</ref>		According to lexicographer Allan A. Metcalf, the word is a marker of northern California dialect.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Allan A. Metcalf \|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618043637 \|title=How We Talk: American Regional English Today \|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] Reference Books \|year=2000 \|isbn=0-618-04362-4 \|url-access=registration}}</ref> According to Colleen Cotter, "[[Southern California]]ns know the term ... but rarely use it." Sometimes the term ''grippa'' is used to mock "NorCal" dialect, with the actual meaning being the opposite of hella.{{Clarify\|date=April 2021}}<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Colleen Cotter \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSkUXkI14pAC \|title=USA Phrasebook \|publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] \|year=2001 \|isbn=978-1-86450-182-7}}</ref>

	==History==		==History==

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		⚫	''Hella'' has likely existed in [[NoCal\|northern]] [[California English]] since at least the mid-1970s. Geoff Nunberg, a UC Berkeley linguist, has theorized on the origins of the slang term "hella".<ref name="Eghan" /> "Hella emerged somewhere in Northern California around the late 1970s, and although it spread to other places, it’s still associated with this region," says Nunberg. Historically, many slang words have spread from black English to white English and not in the other direction, which is why Nunberg says he suspects it started in Oakland,<ref name="Eghan" /> an area that, at one point, was 47% African American.{{cn\|date=December 2021}}
	''Hella'' has likely existed in [[NoCal\|northern]] [[California English]] since at least the mid-1970s.

⚫	Geoff Nunberg, a UC Berkeley linguist, has theorized on the origins of the slang term "hella".<ref name="Eghan" /> "Hella emerged somewhere in Northern California around the late 1970s, and although it spread to other places, it’s still associated with this region," says Nunberg. Historically, many slang words have spread from black English to white English and not in the other direction, which is why Nunberg says he suspects it started in Oakland,<ref name="Eghan" /> an area that, at one point, was 47% African American.{{cn\|date=December 2021}}

	By 1993, [[Mary Bucholtz]], a linguist at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], collated materials from an urban high school (Mt. Eden High School) in the [[San Francisco Bay Area\|Bay Area]] and found that ''hella'' was "used among Bay Area youth of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds and both genders."<ref name="Bucholtz2006">{{Cite book \|last=Bucholtz \|first=Mary \|author-link=Mary Bucholtz \|url=https://archive.org/details/culturalapproach0000mona \|title=A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings \|publisher=Blackwell \|year=2006 \|isbn=9781405125956 \|editor-last=Goodman \|editor-first=Jane \|location=Malden, MA \|pages=243–267 \|chapter=Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture \|oclc=71243975 \|access-date=2014-05-25 \|editor-last2=Monaghan \|editor-first2=Leila \|chapter-url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c7141bs}}</ref> ''Hella'' remains part of the dialect of northern California, where it has grown in popularity.<ref name="Eghan" />		By 1993, [[Mary Bucholtz]], a linguist at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], collated materials from an urban high school (Mt. Eden High School) in the [[San Francisco Bay Area\|Bay Area]] and found that ''hella'' was "used among Bay Area youth of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds and both genders."<ref name="Bucholtz2006">{{Cite book \|last=Bucholtz \|first=Mary \|author-link=Mary Bucholtz \|url=https://archive.org/details/culturalapproach0000mona \|title=A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings \|publisher=Blackwell \|year=2006 \|isbn=9781405125956 \|editor-last=Goodman \|editor-first=Jane \|location=Malden, MA \|pages=243–267 \|chapter=Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture \|oclc=71243975 \|access-date=2014-05-25 \|editor-last2=Monaghan \|editor-first2=Leila \|chapter-url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c7141bs}}</ref> ''Hella'' remains part of the dialect of northern California, where it has grown in popularity.<ref name="Eghan" />

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	'''''Hella''''' is an [[American English]] slang term originating in and often associated with [[East Bay\|San Francisco's East Bay area]] in California, possibly specifically emerging in the 1970s [[African-American Vernacular English \|African-American vernacular]] of [[Oakland, California\|Oakland]].<ref>{{~~Cite~~ ~~book~~ \|last=Boboc \|first=Wellesley \|title=To ~~hella~~ and ~~back~~: A ~~syntactic~~ ~~analysis~~ of hella in ~~dialects~~ of American English \|~~publisher~~=~~New~~ ~~York~~ ~~University~~ \|~~year~~=2016 \|page=11 \|~~type~~=~~Undergraduate~~ ~~senior~~ ~~honors thesis~~}}</ref><ref name="Eghan">{{Cite news \|last=Eghan \|first=Adizah \|date=November 17, 2016 \|title=The Origins of 'Hella' \|url=https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/17/the-origins-of-hella \|work=KQED}}</ref> It is used as an intensifying adverb such as in "hella bad" or "hella good". It was eventually added to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' in 2002, citing a 1987 first use in the [[Toronto Star]].<ref name="Eghan" /><ref name="OED">{{Cite encyclopedia \|year=2002 \|title=hella, adv. and adj. \|encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|edition=Third}}</ref> It is possibly a [[contraction (grammar)\|contraction]] of the phrase "hell of a" or "hell of a lot [of]", in turn reduced to "hell of",<ref name="OED" /> though some scholars doubt this etymology since its grammatical usage does not align with those phrases; or of "hellacious".<ref name="Eghan" /> It often appears in place of the words "really", "a lot", "totally", "very", and in some cases, "yes". Whereas ''hell of a'' is generally used with a [[noun]], according to linguist [[Pamela Munro]], ''hella'' is primarily used to modify an [[adjective]] such as "good".<ref name="VOA">{{Cite news \|date=2002-12-19 \|title=Campus Slang \|url=https://www.manythings.org/voa/wm/wm185.html \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|publisher=[[Voice of America]]}}</ref>		'''''Hella''''' is an [[American English]] slang term originating in and often associated with [[East Bay\|San Francisco's East Bay area]] in California, possibly specifically emerging in the 1970s [[African-American Vernacular English \|African-American vernacular]] of [[Oakland, California\|Oakland]].<ref>{{cite thesis \|last=Boboc \|first=Wellesley \|title=To Hella and Back: A Syntactic Analysis of ''hella'' in Dialects of American English \|url=https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/linguistics/documents/Boboc%20Thesis_Final.pdf \|type=Senior honors thesis (undergraduate) \|date=April 2016 \|page=11 \|publisher=New York University}}</ref><ref name="Eghan">{{Cite news \|last=Eghan \|first=Adizah \|date=November 17, 2016 \|title=The Origins of 'Hella' \|url=https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/17/the-origins-of-hella \|work=KQED}}</ref> It is used as an intensifying adverb such as in "hella bad" or "hella good". It was eventually added to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' in 2002, citing a 1987 first use in the [[Toronto Star]].<ref name="Eghan" /><ref name="OED">{{Cite encyclopedia \|year=2002 \|title=hella, adv. and adj. \|encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|edition=Third}}</ref> It is possibly a [[contraction (grammar)\|contraction]] of the phrase "hell of a" or "hell of a lot [of]", in turn reduced to "hell of",<ref name="OED" /> though some scholars doubt this etymology since its grammatical usage does not align with those phrases; or of "hellacious".<ref name="Eghan" /> It often appears in place of the words "really", "a lot", "totally", "very", and in some cases, "yes". Whereas ''hell of a'' is generally used with a [[noun]], according to linguist [[Pamela Munro]], ''hella'' is primarily used to modify an [[adjective]] such as "good".<ref name="VOA">{{Cite news \|date=2002-12-19 \|title=Campus Slang \|url=https://www.manythings.org/voa/wm/wm185.html \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|publisher=[[Voice of America]]}}</ref>

	According to lexicographer Allan A. Metcalf, the word is a marker of [[northern California]] dialect.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Allan A. Metcalf \|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618043637 \|title=How We Talk: American Regional English Today \|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] Reference Books \|year=2000 \|isbn=0-618-04362-4 \|url-access=registration}}</ref> According to Colleen Cotter, "[[Southern California]]ns know the term ... but rarely use it." Sometimes the term ''grippa'' is used to mock "NorCal" dialect, with the actual meaning being the opposite of hella.{{Clarify\|date=April 2021}}<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Colleen Cotter \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSkUXkI14pAC \|title=USA Phrasebook \|publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] \|year=2001 \|isbn=978-1-86450-182-7}}</ref>		According to lexicographer Allan A. Metcalf, the word is a marker of [[northern California]] dialect.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Allan A. Metcalf \|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618043637 \|title=How We Talk: American Regional English Today \|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] Reference Books \|year=2000 \|isbn=0-618-04362-4 \|url-access=registration}}</ref> According to Colleen Cotter, "[[Southern California]]ns know the term ... but rarely use it." Sometimes the term ''grippa'' is used to mock "NorCal" dialect, with the actual meaning being the opposite of hella.{{Clarify\|date=April 2021}}<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Colleen Cotter \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSkUXkI14pAC \|title=USA Phrasebook \|publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] \|year=2001 \|isbn=978-1-86450-182-7}}</ref>

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	Geoff Nunberg, a UC Berkeley linguist, has theorized on the origins of the slang term "hella".<ref name="Eghan" /> ~~“Hella~~ emerged somewhere in Northern California around the late 1970s, and although it spread to other places, it’s still associated with this region,” says Nunberg. Historically, many slang words have spread from black English to white English and not in the other direction, which is why Nunberg says he suspects it started in Oakland,<ref name="Eghan" /> an area that, at one point, was 47% African American.{{cn\|date=December 2021}}		Geoff Nunberg, a UC Berkeley linguist, has theorized on the origins of the slang term "hella".<ref name="Eghan" /> "Hella emerged somewhere in Northern California around the late 1970s, and although it spread to other places, it’s still associated with this region," says Nunberg. Historically, many slang words have spread from black English to white English and not in the other direction, which is why Nunberg says he suspects it started in Oakland,<ref name="Eghan" /> an area that, at one point, was 47% African American.{{cn\|date=December 2021}}

	By 1993, [[Mary Bucholtz]], a linguist at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], collated materials from an urban high school (Mt. Eden High School) in the [[San Francisco Bay Area\|Bay Area]] and found that ''hella'' was "used among Bay Area youth of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds and both genders."<ref name="Bucholtz2006">{{Cite book \|last=Bucholtz \|first=Mary \|url=https://archive.org/details/culturalapproach0000mona \|title=A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings \|publisher=Blackwell \|year=2006 \|isbn=9781405125956 \|editor-last=Goodman \|editor-first=Jane \|location=Malden, MA \|pages=243–267 \|chapter=Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture \|oclc=71243975 \|author-link=Mary Bucholtz \|access-date=2014-05-25 \|editor-last2=Monaghan \|editor-first2=Leila \|chapter-url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c7141bs }}</ref> ''Hella'' remains part of the dialect of northern California, where it has grown in popularity.<ref name="Eghan" />		By 1993, [[Mary Bucholtz]], a linguist at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], collated materials from an urban high school (Mt. Eden High School) in the [[San Francisco Bay Area\|Bay Area]] and found that ''hella'' was "used among Bay Area youth of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds and both genders."<ref name="Bucholtz2006">{{Cite book \|last=Bucholtz \|first=Mary \|url=https://archive.org/details/culturalapproach0000mona \|title=A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings \|publisher=Blackwell \|year=2006 \|isbn=9781405125956 \|editor-last=Goodman \|editor-first=Jane \|location=Malden, MA \|pages=243–267 \|chapter=Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture \|oclc=71243975 \|author-link=Mary Bucholtz \|access-date=2014-05-25 \|editor-last2=Monaghan \|editor-first2=Leila \|chapter-url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c7141bs }}</ref> ''Hella'' remains part of the dialect of northern California, where it has grown in popularity.<ref name="Eghan" />

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	In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Spookyfish]]," which was the 1998 [[Halloween]] special, the character [[Eric Cartman\|Cartman]] repeatedly used the term ''hella'' to the annoyance of the other characters,<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Spooky Fish Recap \|url=http://www.tv.com/south-park/spooky-fish/episode/2444/recap.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322043606/http://www.tv.com/south-park/spooky-fish/episode/2444/recap.html \|archive-date=2008-03-22 \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|publisher=[[TV.com]]}}</ref> which contributed to its currency spreading nationally.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Kristin Carmichael \|date=Spring 1999 \|title=Yo, yo, yo ... Catch this Slang is used to unify the masses \|work=CatBytes \|publisher=[[California State University, Chico]] \|url=http://www.csuchico.edu/jour/catbytes/s99/slang.htm \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724132709/http://www.csuchico.edu/jour/catbytes/s99/slang.htm \|archive-date=2008-07-24}}</ref> "You guys are hella stupid" is one of the phrases spoken by a talking Cartman doll released in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Luigi Lugmayr \|date=October 28, 2006 \|title=Must Have: Talking Cartman Action Figure \|url=http://www.i4u.com/article6942.html \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|website=I4U News}}</ref> The [[Sacramento, California\|Sacramento]]-based band [[Hella (band)\|Hella]] chose its name for the regional association; [[Zach Hill]] says "It's everywhere up here.... We thought it was funny, and everyone says it all the time."<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Jeremy Scherer \|date=October 15, 2003 \|title=Hella: Slang name for a band that's hard to pigeonhole \|publisher=[[Los Angeles Newspaper Group\|Inland Valley Daily Bulletin]] \|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VDBB&p_theme=vdbb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FE6CF3366EEB29E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM \|access-date=2008-02-14}}</ref>		In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Spookyfish]]," which was the 1998 [[Halloween]] special, the character [[Eric Cartman\|Cartman]] repeatedly used the term ''hella'' to the annoyance of the other characters,<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Spooky Fish Recap \|url=http://www.tv.com/south-park/spooky-fish/episode/2444/recap.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322043606/http://www.tv.com/south-park/spooky-fish/episode/2444/recap.html \|archive-date=2008-03-22 \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|publisher=[[TV.com]]}}</ref> which contributed to its currency spreading nationally.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Kristin Carmichael \|date=Spring 1999 \|title=Yo, yo, yo ... Catch this Slang is used to unify the masses \|work=CatBytes \|publisher=[[California State University, Chico]] \|url=http://www.csuchico.edu/jour/catbytes/s99/slang.htm \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724132709/http://www.csuchico.edu/jour/catbytes/s99/slang.htm \|archive-date=2008-07-24}}</ref> "You guys are hella stupid" is one of the phrases spoken by a talking Cartman doll released in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Luigi Lugmayr \|date=October 28, 2006 \|title=Must Have: Talking Cartman Action Figure \|url=http://www.i4u.com/article6942.html \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|website=I4U News}}</ref> The [[Sacramento, California\|Sacramento]]-based band [[Hella (band)\|Hella]] chose its name for the regional association; [[Zach Hill]] says "It's everywhere up here.... We thought it was funny, and everyone says it all the time."<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Jeremy Scherer \|date=October 15, 2003 \|title=Hella: Slang name for a band that's hard to pigeonhole \|publisher=[[Los Angeles Newspaper Group\|Inland Valley Daily Bulletin]] \|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VDBB&p_theme=vdbb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FE6CF3366EEB29E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM \|access-date=2008-02-14}}</ref>

	''Hella'' was included on the [[BBC]]'s list of 20 words that sum up the ~~2000-2009~~ decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word ''very''".<ref>{{Cite news \|date=December 14, 2009 \|title=A Portrait of the Decade \|publisher=BBC \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409040.stm \|access-date=2009-12-14}}</ref>		''Hella'' was included on the [[BBC]]'s list of 20 words that sum up the 2000–2009 decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word ''very''".<ref>{{Cite news \|date=December 14, 2009 \|title=A Portrait of the Decade \|publisher=BBC \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409040.stm \|access-date=2009-12-14}}</ref>

	Paralleling the use of the [[minced oath]] ''heck'', some people use ''hecka'' in place of ''hella''.<ref name="Eghan" /> Younger school children may be required to use this form.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Chawkins \|first=Steve \|date=2010-07-06 \|title=Physics major has a name for a really big number \|work=Los Angeles Times \|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/06/local/la-me-hella-20100706 \|access-date=2014-04-05 \|quote=Sendek, who was forced to use hecka as a child...}}</ref> Church culture in Northern California also encouraged usage of ''hecka'' over ''hella''.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 24, 2014 \|title=How To Use Hella (RE: Language & Slang) \|publisher=HITRECORD \|url=https://hitrecord.org/records/1595149 \|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref>		Paralleling the use of the [[minced oath]] ''heck'', some people use ''hecka'' in place of ''hella''.<ref name="Eghan" /> Younger school children may be required to use this form.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Chawkins \|first=Steve \|date=2010-07-06 \|title=Physics major has a name for a really big number \|work=Los Angeles Times \|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/06/local/la-me-hella-20100706 \|access-date=2014-04-05 \|quote=Sendek, who was forced to use hecka as a child...}}</ref> Church culture in Northern California also encouraged usage of ''hecka'' over ''hella''.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 24, 2014 \|title=How To Use Hella (RE: Language & Slang) \|publisher=HITRECORD \|url=https://hitrecord.org/records/1595149 \|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref>

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	''Hella'' was included on the [[BBC]]'s list of 20 words that sum up the 2000–2009 decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word ''very''".<ref>{{Cite news \|date=December 14, 2009 \|title=A Portrait of the Decade \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409040.stm \|access-date=2009-12-14 \|publisher=BBC}}</ref>		''Hella'' was included on the [[BBC]]'s list of 20 words that sum up the 2000–2009 decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word ''very''".<ref>{{Cite news \|date=December 14, 2009 \|title=A Portrait of the Decade \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409040.stm \|access-date=2009-12-14 \|publisher=BBC}}</ref>

	Paralleling the use of the [[minced oath]] ''heck'', some people use ''hecka'' in place of ''hella''.<ref name="Eghan" /> Younger school children may be required to use this form.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Chawkins \|first=Steve \|date=2010-07-06 \|title=Physics major has a name for a really big number \|url=~~http~~://~~articles~~.latimes.com/~~2010~~/jul/06~~/local/~~la-me-hella-20100706 \|access-date=2014-04-05 \|work=Los Angeles Times \|quote=Sendek, who was forced to use hecka as a child...}}</ref> Church culture in Northern California also encouraged usage of ''hecka'' over ''hella''.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 24, 2014 \|title=How To Use Hella (RE: Language & Slang) \|url=https://hitrecord.org/records/1595149 \|access-date=2020-04-09 \|publisher=HITRECORD}}</ref>		Paralleling the use of the [[minced oath]] ''heck'', some people use ''hecka'' in place of ''hella''.<ref name="Eghan" /> Younger school children may be required to use this form.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Chawkins \|first=Steve \|date=2010-07-06 \|title=Physics major has a name for a really big number \|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jul-06-la-me-hella-20100706-story.html \|access-date=2014-04-05 \|work=Los Angeles Times \|quote=Sendek, who was forced to use hecka as a child...}}</ref> Church culture in Northern California also encouraged usage of ''hecka'' over ''hella''.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 24, 2014 \|title=How To Use Hella (RE: Language & Slang) \|url=https://hitrecord.org/records/1595149 \|access-date=2020-04-09 \|publisher=HITRECORD}}</ref>

	The [[Prince (musician)\|Prince]] song "[[U Got The Look]]," released in 1987 on the album ''[[Sign o' the Times]]'', features the lyric "your body's hecka slammin'...", which would appear to be an early adoption of the term ''hecka'' in its accepted vernacular usage.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Grant \|first=Sarah \|date=2017-06-07 \|title=Sheila E. Remembers Private Life With Prince, Wild 'Purple Rain' Parties \|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/sheila-e-on-princes-wooing-wild-purple-rain-parties-w486152 \|access-date=2017-06-12 \|work=Rolling Stone Magazine \|quote=It's an Oakland thing.}}</ref>		The [[Prince (musician)\|Prince]] song "[[U Got The Look]]," released in 1987 on the album ''[[Sign o' the Times]]'', features the lyric "your body's hecka slammin'...", which would appear to be an early adoption of the term ''hecka'' in its accepted vernacular usage.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Grant \|first=Sarah \|date=2017-06-07 \|title=Sheila E. Remembers Private Life With Prince, Wild 'Purple Rain' Parties \|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/sheila-e-on-princes-wooing-wild-purple-rain-parties-w486152 \|access-date=2017-06-12 \|work=Rolling Stone Magazine \|quote=It's an Oakland thing.}}</ref>

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	''Hella'' has likely existed in [[NoCal\|northern]] [[California English]] since at least the mid-1970s.		''Hella'' has likely existed in [[NoCal\|northern]] [[California English]] since at least the mid-1970s.

	Geoff Nunberg, a UC Berkeley linguist, has theorized on the origins of the slang term "hella".<ref name="Eghan" /> ~~“Hella~~ emerged somewhere in Northern California around the late 1970s, and although it spread to other places, it’s still associated with this region,” says Nunberg. Historically, many slang words have spread from black English to white English and not in the other direction, which is why Nunberg says he suspects it started in Oakland,<ref name="Eghan" /> an area that, at one point, was 47% African American.{{cn\|date=December 2021}}		Geoff Nunberg, a UC Berkeley linguist, has theorized on the origins of the slang term "hella".<ref name="Eghan" /> "Hella emerged somewhere in Northern California around the late 1970s, and although it spread to other places, it’s still associated with this region," says Nunberg. Historically, many slang words have spread from black English to white English and not in the other direction, which is why Nunberg says he suspects it started in Oakland,<ref name="Eghan" /> an area that, at one point, was 47% African American.{{cn\|date=December 2021}}

	By 1993, [[Mary Bucholtz]], a linguist at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], collated materials from an urban high school (Mt. Eden High School) in the [[San Francisco Bay Area\|Bay Area]] and found that ''hella'' was "used among Bay Area youth of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds and both genders."<ref name="Bucholtz2006">{{Cite book \|last=Bucholtz \|first=Mary \|url=https://archive.org/details/culturalapproach0000mona \|title=A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings \|publisher=Blackwell \|year=2006 \|isbn=9781405125956 \|editor-last=Goodman \|editor-first=Jane \|location=Malden, MA \|pages=243–267 \|chapter=Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture \|oclc=71243975 \|author-link=Mary Bucholtz \|access-date=2014-05-25 \|editor-last2=Monaghan \|editor-first2=Leila \|chapter-url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c7141bs }}</ref> ''Hella'' remains part of the dialect of northern California, where it has grown in popularity.<ref name="Eghan" />		By 1993, [[Mary Bucholtz]], a linguist at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], collated materials from an urban high school (Mt. Eden High School) in the [[San Francisco Bay Area\|Bay Area]] and found that ''hella'' was "used among Bay Area youth of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds and both genders."<ref name="Bucholtz2006">{{Cite book \|last=Bucholtz \|first=Mary \|url=https://archive.org/details/culturalapproach0000mona \|title=A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings \|publisher=Blackwell \|year=2006 \|isbn=9781405125956 \|editor-last=Goodman \|editor-first=Jane \|location=Malden, MA \|pages=243–267 \|chapter=Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture \|oclc=71243975 \|author-link=Mary Bucholtz \|access-date=2014-05-25 \|editor-last2=Monaghan \|editor-first2=Leila \|chapter-url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c7141bs }}</ref> ''Hella'' remains part of the dialect of northern California, where it has grown in popularity.<ref name="Eghan" />

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	In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Spookyfish]]," which was the 1998 [[Halloween]] special, the character [[Eric Cartman\|Cartman]] repeatedly used the term ''hella'' to the annoyance of the other characters,<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Spooky Fish Recap \|url=http://www.tv.com/south-park/spooky-fish/episode/2444/recap.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322043606/http://www.tv.com/south-park/spooky-fish/episode/2444/recap.html \|archive-date=2008-03-22 \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|publisher=[[TV.com]]}}</ref> which contributed to its currency spreading nationally.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Kristin Carmichael \|date=Spring 1999 \|title=Yo, yo, yo ... Catch this Slang is used to unify the masses \|work=CatBytes \|publisher=[[California State University, Chico]] \|url=http://www.csuchico.edu/jour/catbytes/s99/slang.htm \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724132709/http://www.csuchico.edu/jour/catbytes/s99/slang.htm \|archive-date=2008-07-24}}</ref> "You guys are hella stupid" is one of the phrases spoken by a talking Cartman doll released in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Luigi Lugmayr \|date=October 28, 2006 \|title=Must Have: Talking Cartman Action Figure \|url=http://www.i4u.com/article6942.html \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|website=I4U News}}</ref> The [[Sacramento, California\|Sacramento]]-based band [[Hella (band)\|Hella]] chose its name for the regional association; [[Zach Hill]] says "It's everywhere up here.... We thought it was funny, and everyone says it all the time."<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Jeremy Scherer \|date=October 15, 2003 \|title=Hella: Slang name for a band that's hard to pigeonhole \|publisher=[[Los Angeles Newspaper Group\|Inland Valley Daily Bulletin]] \|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VDBB&p_theme=vdbb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FE6CF3366EEB29E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM \|access-date=2008-02-14}}</ref>		In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Spookyfish]]," which was the 1998 [[Halloween]] special, the character [[Eric Cartman\|Cartman]] repeatedly used the term ''hella'' to the annoyance of the other characters,<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Spooky Fish Recap \|url=http://www.tv.com/south-park/spooky-fish/episode/2444/recap.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322043606/http://www.tv.com/south-park/spooky-fish/episode/2444/recap.html \|archive-date=2008-03-22 \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|publisher=[[TV.com]]}}</ref> which contributed to its currency spreading nationally.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Kristin Carmichael \|date=Spring 1999 \|title=Yo, yo, yo ... Catch this Slang is used to unify the masses \|work=CatBytes \|publisher=[[California State University, Chico]] \|url=http://www.csuchico.edu/jour/catbytes/s99/slang.htm \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724132709/http://www.csuchico.edu/jour/catbytes/s99/slang.htm \|archive-date=2008-07-24}}</ref> "You guys are hella stupid" is one of the phrases spoken by a talking Cartman doll released in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Luigi Lugmayr \|date=October 28, 2006 \|title=Must Have: Talking Cartman Action Figure \|url=http://www.i4u.com/article6942.html \|access-date=2008-02-13 \|website=I4U News}}</ref> The [[Sacramento, California\|Sacramento]]-based band [[Hella (band)\|Hella]] chose its name for the regional association; [[Zach Hill]] says "It's everywhere up here.... We thought it was funny, and everyone says it all the time."<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Jeremy Scherer \|date=October 15, 2003 \|title=Hella: Slang name for a band that's hard to pigeonhole \|publisher=[[Los Angeles Newspaper Group\|Inland Valley Daily Bulletin]] \|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VDBB&p_theme=vdbb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FE6CF3366EEB29E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM \|access-date=2008-02-14}}</ref>

	''Hella'' was included on the [[BBC]]'s list of 20 words that sum up the ~~2000-2009~~ decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word ''very''".<ref>{{Cite news \|date=December 14, 2009 \|title=A Portrait of the Decade \|publisher=BBC \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409040.stm \|access-date=2009-12-14}}</ref>		''Hella'' was included on the [[BBC]]'s list of 20 words that sum up the 2000–2009 decade, defined as "An intensive in Youthspeak, generally substituting for the word ''very''".<ref>{{Cite news \|date=December 14, 2009 \|title=A Portrait of the Decade \|publisher=BBC \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8409040.stm \|access-date=2009-12-14}}</ref>

	Paralleling the use of the [[minced oath]] ''heck'', some people use ''hecka'' in place of ''hella''.<ref name="Eghan" /> Younger school children may be required to use this form.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Chawkins \|first=Steve \|date=2010-07-06 \|title=Physics major has a name for a really big number \|work=Los Angeles Times \|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/06/local/la-me-hella-20100706 \|access-date=2014-04-05 \|quote=Sendek, who was forced to use hecka as a child...}}</ref> Church culture in Northern California also encouraged usage of ''hecka'' over ''hella''.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 24, 2014 \|title=How To Use Hella (RE: Language & Slang) \|publisher=HITRECORD \|url=https://hitrecord.org/records/1595149 \|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref>		Paralleling the use of the [[minced oath]] ''heck'', some people use ''hecka'' in place of ''hella''.<ref name="Eghan" /> Younger school children may be required to use this form.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Chawkins \|first=Steve \|date=2010-07-06 \|title=Physics major has a name for a really big number \|work=Los Angeles Times \|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/06/local/la-me-hella-20100706 \|access-date=2014-04-05 \|quote=Sendek, who was forced to use hecka as a child...}}</ref> Church culture in Northern California also encouraged usage of ''hecka'' over ''hella''.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 24, 2014 \|title=How To Use Hella (RE: Language & Slang) \|publisher=HITRECORD \|url=https://hitrecord.org/records/1595149 \|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref>