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The word 'ataa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ataaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ataa in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
hy are dey lettin dem eat dem ataa? Dunna moan aboot wantin dem (2018) twitter link
vorLJohnson Hit maks no sense ataa i agree. I watched hit fur da (2017) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
dens waled nae tae dae muckle ataa. They perked their erses in t
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 81 - Annie and the New Chairs, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
‘Naw, no bad ataa, missus’
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
e it. The drink wisnae bitter ataa. It wis mingin. He screwed th
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ke abeility. I hae nae inklin ataa o wha's wark I'm luikan at. I on page 8

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
in asleep. It wasnae his faut ataa. It had aye been his mintin t on page 17

1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
essage I wuid want tae sen ye ataa!(2018)

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