I was twelve when the das started killing themselves all around me 2025, CMAT, “Euro-Country”:
“Dear, but you're like your grandmother!” she continued, patting the little girl's head. “Many a penny's worth I sold to your da, when he was weer than you are.” 1924, Louis Joseph Walsh, “Yellow Man”, in Twilight Reveries, M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd., pages 44–45:
Oh where is yer da son? The man said it to me and was grumpy. Is yer da here? 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 55:
Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins. 2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 48:
"So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!" He seized the girl's wrist. "No, no, you don't run. Hey! Where is-a da cop?" 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 11:
They are both holding onto their caps in the stiff breeze, and Zang is shouting, "Where is da main hotel going to be?" 2012, Jeffrey Arnold, Nobody's Laughing, page 157: