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The word 'pas'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.45116
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pas in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I did a skilful pas-de-bas and pasted on a smile. on page 3

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Aye, innit is like n’est-ce pas, eh no? (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
eft buit and showed me fu tae pas de bas - the basic steps i t on page 124

2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
tick up front. Ye can try and pas yir wye there but ye really d (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
alt it wes fur modren fowk ti pas
yndin auld railwey ferssis ti pas
dna, he thocht i bot jonik ti pas the
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
body got up in the aisles tae pas de bas! This shaw is awthin t
1 matches

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
o sair she wis every time she pas d watter. Ma een widened but on page 13

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
sen the Roumans cam owre the Pas o Calais. We thocht at we sui on page 13

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
, beleved in verball menes ti pas on infur - mautioun. The Chr on page 47

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
'N' mange pas le neige jaune'!
“Je ne sais pas,” oor Caius man said,
2 matches

General Central

Johnston, Mary Lallans 73 - Ceilidh, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
pas de bas stottin, on page 115

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
‘splendour […] dois onlie pas all feminine [surpasses thon
so madame I wein / dois onlie pas all feminine [wimmenkind]’
2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e neg infeenitivs i Scots (ne pas parler, era impossível eu n(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
It would appear I made a faux pas when sitting in my local caf (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Lyttle, A. G. Yarns 3 - Lastin Memorial, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Bangor, prose
pas three-yeir; Wee Wes works in
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@BertSwattermain I cudnae say pas, #UlsterScots (2015) twitter link