A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'aha'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ahaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of aha 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.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
thi boatie up, am theinken, "Aha at lad'l jist be deein eis, s on page 62

1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
crimbo tunes oan @originalfm #Aha Sun ni’ver shines oan e’ Te(2018)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
irsty's got a baldy. Shut it. AHA BALDY. on page 94
oot fae behind the bookshelf. Aha, he said, Yi didnae see that on page 106
h gies a sniff ae yir flooer. Aha, said Chris Russell, That's a on page 113
queue, an so wis Chris Rice. AHA, shoutet Tommy, GET YIR CRAP on page 159

4 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
'Aha,' cam a soun like the crack o on page 70

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Aha, thon auld couple
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@JoanMcAlpine @Historic_Ally Aha richt, mebbes 2-3 year back? (2020) twitter link