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South African words such as yoh added to Oxford English Dictionary

Yoh! I’m so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.

No, these are not grammatical errors – this is a sentence comprising South African words included in the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED) latest update.

It means: Wow, I’m so annoyed by this prison and need to smoke some marijuana to handle these irrational people.

These popular words are among a slew of “untranslatable words”, defined by the OED as “words and phrases in one language that cannot be translated into another”, featured in the latest lexicon.

Other “loan words” included in the update come from the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Ireland.


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