Do we say pa or pah

pa 1590 occurrences

"Let me go with him, pa," begged little Clarence, who heard his father giving Eph his instructions.

" "But, pa, I can ride my pony; and, besides, you might let me go, for I shan't have many more chances to ride himdo let me go.

" "Oh, pa," laughingly interrupted little Clarence; "I've been telling him of what you read to me about Nimrod being a great hunter.

"But Em," said he, "we are going to sleep in such funny little places; even pa and mamma have got to sleep on little shelves stuck up against the wall; and they've got a thing that swings from the ceiling that they keep the tumblers and wine-glasses inevery glass has got a little hole for itself.

Her pa was a white man; her ma a light woman.

My grandpa was a white man; mama's pa.

I reckon my husband and pa did vote.

Pa stole her out and one night a small panther smelled them and come on a log up over where they slept in a canebrake.

Pa killed it with a bowie knife.

Pa had stole her out.

"Ma and pa et dinner, well as could be.

They had a doctor named Dr. Coleman come to see ma and pa.

We buried ma and pa on the neighbor's place.

Sister brought my horse pa left for me.

They called pa Major Terry but he belong to Bill Talbot.

Pa come from Edgefield, South Carolina to Alabama.

Pa was William Anderson.

Ma was a cook and pa a field hand.

"My pa looked on me when I was three days old and left us.

"I was eighteen years old when pa and ma took the notion to come out here.

All of us come but one sister had married, and pa and one brother had a little difference.

Pa had children ma didn't have.

Pa got a pension till he died.

" "Well, miss, please remember me most kindly to yer pa; he was a good boss was Dick Melvyn.

MERCERSBURG (PA.)

pah 67 occurrences

It is used chiefly by roaming bands of the Pah Ute Indians and "sheepmen.

" "Pah! a newspaper.

"Pah!" exclaimed my father.

"Pah!" said the Major, scornfully.

Besides, how can one member of the family be absent on New Year's Day?" Arm in arm they strolled out into the great living room, where a large, pompous, vividly colored gentleman was laying down the law to the tripletsthree very attractive young girls, dressed precisely alike, who said, "Yes, pa-pah!"

and "No pa-pah!"

"Yes, pa-pah!"

"Pah!" said the other.

"Pah!" said Mr. Downing.

"And the peoplewhat kind are they?" "Pah!

O, MY! PAH!

It's flown away, Ke-pah-ze-qwah-o, Ke-ke-ze-kay. 8.

For it appears that, after an entire morning spent at the stationer's, when the shop-keeper has discussed every article he has for sale, you wind up by saying, "Je prendrai une petite bouteille d'encre noire," and all that long-suffering man retorts is, "J'voo zangvairay ler pah-kay," which is not nearly so bolshevistic as it looks.

At the close of January, Dr. Hurt, the Indian Agent, after consultation with General Johnston, started from the camp, accompanied only by four Pah-Utahs, and crossed the Uinta Mountains, through snow drifted twenty feet deep, to the villages of the tribe of Uinta-Utahs, on the river of the same name.

" Soon they heard another person shouting for a feast, and, going, they entered the lodge of the Sin-o-pah chief.

[)E]ts-[=a]i'-nah, Horns, Bloods, obsolete among the Piegans, Sin'-o-pah, Kit-foxes, Piegans, but still exists with Bloods.

Of all the societies of the I-kun-uh'-kah-tsi, the Sin'-o-pah, or Kit-fox band, has the strongest medicine.

People who belonged to the Sin'-o-pah band of the I-kun-uh'-kah-tsi, if they were at war in summer and wanted a storm to come up, would take some dirt and water and rub it on the kit-fox skin, and this would cause a rain-storm to come up.

He had come down that hillside and Ethel had been with him.... Had he really felt like that about her? "Pah!"

R635025. Pah-se-to-pah: hunter of the Osage.

R635025. Pah-se-to-pah: hunter of the Osage.

"Pah!" said Woodhouse.

When I stood over him and saw him bleeding on the white sand, and his beautiful great legs and neck writhing in his last agony ... Pah!

John Muir, in his recent work on The Mountains of California (80), says it is truly astonishing to see what immense loads the haggard old Pah Ute squaws make out to carry bare-footed over the rugged passes.

'She's been daft for gi'ein' pah-ties since ever I can mind,' Mr. Robinson put in, 'an' the Kaiser hissel' couldna stop her, Still, Macgreegor, she's an auld frien', an' it wud be a peety to offend her.

Do we say   pa   or  pah