2003, Anton F. Bilek, Tony Bilek, Gene O'Connell,No Uncle Sam: The Forgotten of Bataan, Kent State University Press,→ISBN, page31:
"Naw, no trouble. Just pulled off the road for about ten minutes, maybe, when a couple of Nip fighters banked overhead. They were after something or other." "Is that right?" Mac replied.
2012, Alex Gray,A Pound of Flesh:
'Naw, hen, sorry. Ye're too young for us. Come back when you've got a couple mair years under yer belt, eh?'
2012 November 1, Brenda Hampton,Naughty No More, Urban Books,→ISBN:
“Naw, no thanks. I'll catch you next time.” “Come on, Shane. All you do is work, work, and work. You need to have a little fun, don't you?” “Right now, I'm having a lot of fun. Trust me.” “Do you have company?” “No, I'm painting.”
There isn't any fighting. There aren't any shots being fired.
(literally, “No one not fight. No bullet not fire.”)
Nuttennaw gwaan, Rayman.
There aren't any opportunities, Raymond.
(literally, “Nothing not going on, Raymond”)
1990, Frances Gray,Women at the Albany Empire (in Jamaican Creole),→ISBN, page62:
“WINSTON: If she tink me ah guh sign any paper and guh to any backside Court she bettah tink again PARKIE: Suh you naw guh see your wife and sort dis ting out?[…]”
WINSTON: If she thinks I'm going to sign any papers and go to some damned courthouse, she has another thing coming. PARKIE: Well, aren't you and your wife going to work this thing out?[…]
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “naw”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies