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Use in varieties of Scots

ata Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20 6.2 73.9 0 5.8 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences6412 49 0 1 1 1
Number of authors14 5 6 1 1 1

Occurrences of ata in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ata, iki pasimatymo. on page 77

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
el war if they wisnae growin' ata'. Aye, there's aye a lot o' k on page 5
es ye'd be better no stoppin' ata', bit jist pass them by wi' a on page 8
were here fur made ony sense ata'. Hooever, Ah sometimes winde on page 10
git ony sleep at nichts then ata', still a lot o' the wummen h on page 37
weeks Eck didnae hae a catch ata', aye it wis richt bad. on page 38

5 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
're nae inclined ti the truth ata. on page 32
he's nae a king, nor a prince ata - on page 35

4 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
it doon on a stoory scrublan. Ata short distance, gowstie munta
1 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
ever cryin that skirlie, nut ata,
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
at I hear wi - it's nae fine ata I wis looking tae you for rel on page 15

2 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
tellen em, "O, aye nay buther ata Jock," so aat aw said an deen on page 31
said, "Shee's nay liken eiss ata." An shoor anuff thi peer aul on page 46
tae Boddim, a hid nay braik's ata, so a hault on thi haanbraik, on page 65

3 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Nick couldna watch nae mair ata, on page 28

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
resh or frost? You widnae ken ata,
inter simply his nae ony grip ata,
win melts the sna in nae time ata.
er the day I canna fathom oot ata
lichtsome shoor och nae much ata,
20 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
naething tull the operation ata". Ned then asks." Wull I be k
ait. Ere's naething tull yon ata."
naething ata.
it fresh frost? I canna tell ata,
t or fresh? nae sure aboot at ata,
21 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
ossAndrew7 aye i dina like um ata(2013) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ine for e een thit canna flee ata.(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
r es Baabie at wis interested ata young Hunter, fine kindly fel
1 matches

Southern

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
int, a wunder how they manage ata'. Bit A suppose they must, or
1 matches

Ulster

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
dnae ken 'Scotland the Brave' ata was Scotia's tune List'ning a
1 matches

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