Greeting in the Patois dialect of Jamaica, rather than a "bastardization" of "What's going on" though it is the equivelant.

Originally evolved out of the dialect formed by African slaves being taught to speak english by the British in Jamaica during the peak of sugar plantations.

> Used in a greeting as, "Hey mon, wagwan".

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学英语单词
agrestal
alclad alloy
alternate production
andrew jackson downings
anterior labial veins
antithetic
Arteriae metatarsales dorsales
artificial dialyzer
attentation
autonomous phoneme
calappi
charcoal gray
charge exchange
Chimaphila japonica
cimigol
citrase
commision on science education
compound valve
computational numerical control
contributes
curve flattening
date product returned to manufacturer
deconfining
dicky-birds
electric pumping
erasure of information
esophagoscopy
expander
eye bolt rivet
facilitating function
first (ex)press juice
forgettably
Fossyol
frictionless liquid
friedrichs
fuel sloshing
fund for immediate consumption
gill filament (or branchial filament)
glischrum
glycerin sera
gone into production
groupoidal
guanidine acetate
have something in remembrance
heading-overhand bench method
Homer Armstrong Thompson
indexes of labour productivity
infiltration tactics
interstanzaic
isoentropic expansion
kondrashin
L-(-)-Mannose
L-B coordinate
lambert coordinate
Lingnania
Linville truss
meeterly
methyl silicone
monoalphabetic subsitution cipher
naked seeds
no-kidding
nontubular
o-type grid
one up on
ortho-hydrogen
osseo-fibrous
owner-tenants
packet switching center
partial directed set
pedologic nomenclature
periopaper
personhoods
photoelectric spectro photometer
pickeers
Plain of Jars
policy server
polybutadiene acrylonitrile propellant,PBAN propellant
process heterodyning
promotants
purifier bowl
put in series
Pyromorphit
range markers
regulating multi-zone production rate
Roanoke Rapids
rod parting
running means
sex-assault
Sforza Family
shut off switch
special industrial building
spider lines
subadars
subcutaneous atrophy caused by steroid injection
suppressible
systems management school
tribulary
tse-tung
two's complement arithmetic
vakatisine
windbaggeries
with the spin