  We express the number of points on the Dwork hypersurface $$X_{\lambda}^d:
x_1^d+x_2^d+\cdots +x_d^d=d\lambda x_1x_2\cdots x_d$$ over a finite field of
order $q \not \equiv 1 \pmod{d}$ in terms of McCarthy's $p$-adic hypergeometric
function for any odd prime $d$.
