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While it's true that many Singaporeans speak a hodge-podge of English, Malay, the Chinese dialects plus a bit of Tamil, this is one of the basilectal forms of "Singlish".

languagehat.com: ENGLISH IN MONGOLIA. 2005

I was exploring the idea of hodge-podging experience together by taking a combination of machinist and other practical fabrication classes, together with some drawing, sculpture other design / aesthetic oriented classes at my local state university, and community colleges.

Ask MetaFilter 2009

Congressional Democrats have also larded their bills with funding for Afghanistan, relocation of US troops from bases in Europe and Asia, homeland security, veterans 'health care (far too little), farm disaster aid, Gulf Coast recovery and flu pandemic preparation in the usual kind of hodge-podge legislation always coming from Congress likely to add still more provisions costing more billions in its final form.

Fake Congressional Opposition to War 2007

"Why, I mean merchants, shop-keepers, and tradesmen, with their wives and daughters, all mixed up together, into a kind of hodge-podge.

Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures 1847

When you ask that question you get the hodge podge of lies being spread by republicons and their propaganda networks. it was the same thing with when republicons tried to eliminate estate taxes.

Polls: Majority oppose heath care bill 2009

With the Grid as it is, a hodge podge of capabilities and possibilities legacy this and that, the first thing to do is to break down from a US Power Infrastructure a business analysis standpoint, what exists and what state it is in.

Wonk Room » Get Wired For Progress 2009

Rich Rostrom: To those who say that such a system would be bungled by the incompetent government, open to abuse, and insecure — would it be more bungled, more abused, and less secure than our present half-assed hodge-podge?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Words I never expected to write 2010

The so-called liberal issues of today are a hodge-podge of political correctness gone mad.

The Volokh Conspiracy » More Influential Books 2010

To those who say that such a system would be bungled by the incompetent government, open to abuse, and insecure — would it be more bungled, more abused, and less secure than our present half-assed hodge-podge?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Words I never expected to write 2010

Federal hiring has devolved into a decentralized hodge-podge.

Matthew Yglesias » In Praise of Civil Servants 2010