I'm reading a discussion on a different forum regarding the world "hella", and there is a link to hella's Wikipedia page, where I notice under the history of the word...
Hella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hella has likely existed in NOVA English since at least the mid 1970s. 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 Bay Area, and found that hella was "used among Bay Area (and more specifically Hayward) youth of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds and both genders." "Hella" remains part of the dialect of Northern California, where it has grown in popularity. It is believed by most that the word originated in the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area (Hayward
that's my old high school.....
