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The word 'pa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42813
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 57.6 13 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 9
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 pa in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
Weel da PA caaled da competitors tae da
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Pa pa pa pa pa pum pum pa on page 70
I'll tell ma an' pa. on page 135

13 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ower times thon soum - £48m pa.
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
PA's in-box. She'll reply to som on page 18

1 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
Scots language is an integral pa irt o Scotland's heritage, na on page 4

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Ma an Pa dinna mind, on page 64

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
done the big yins, didn’t I Pa? D’ye like ma fitba’ boot
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e boat. Murphy, wi the mic an PA seistem he obviously needs ta
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
t at the Kibble Palace wi her pa. The washin's oan. Thir's nae(2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e mak him see sense, but that pa(2020)
said of buyers of M&S grannie pa(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
21% - £23k per annum - 35k pa - 45k pa etc etc (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ld Hogmanay hoochter teuchter pa(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
wee wirds Ah lairnt aff ma an pa on page 13
buddy, the auld yin, neebs or pa on page 20

2 matches

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