1824 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 7 Apr. Augusta (Ga.).

1869 Sci. Amer. 22 May 333/2 Pea Dropper.—A. J. Williams, Barnesville, Ga.

1901 J. E. Homans ABC of Telephone xx. 268 A Strowger exchange in Atlanta, Ga., has as many as 500 subscribers.

1957 F. O'Connor Let. 9 Aug. in Habit of Being (1979) 235 An old man..who came from Louvail, Ga., sent I am sure by the Lord to be a plague to the penwoman.

2007 Sophisticate's Black Hair Styles & Care Guide Mar. 54/2 I..go to a great hair salon in Atlanta, GA.

1852 48th Rep. Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. p. cxxxi The Bible—and especially the Hebrew—(which closely approaches the Ga and the Otsi)—can be more easily transferred into a simple African tongue than into any of those spoken in Europe.

1858 J. Zimmermann Grammatical Sketch Akra- or Gã-lang. i. p. vii To learn Gã, it must be heard and to read it fluently, we must read whole sentences together.

1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 756/1 The south-eastern corner of the Gold Coast is occupied by another language known as the Ga or Acra, which comprises the Ga proper and the Adangme and Crobo dialects.

1955 P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) ix. 114 The languages spoken in this area are almost entirely confined to members of the Kwa Larger Unit, comprising such languages as Twi, Ga, Fante, [etc.].

1979 Amer. Ethnologist 6 700 Many Adangbe speak Ga as a second language.

2017 Business & Financial Times (Ghana) (Nexis) 19 Aug. ‘Oya’ is a common expression here with the same meaning in Ga, which is: ‘quickly’.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 319/1 The chief Negro and Negroid races and languages... West Soudan and Guinea... Ewe Group: Acra (Ga), Fantee, Ashantee, Ffon, Mina, Jeji, Dahoman, Nago, Otyi, Yoruba. Gold and Slave coasts.

1899 A. H. Keane Man, Past & Present iii. 55 The Ga of the Volta delta are here bracketed with the Tshi.

1962 Listener 25 Jan. 156/1 There should be no reference to Fantis, Ashantis, Ewes, Gas, Dagombas, ‘strangers’, and so forth, but we should all call ourselves Ghanaians.

1977 M. E. Kropp Dakubu Korle meets Sea iv. 67 Many Ga..live in outer areas like Nima.

2010 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 51 359 The anti malaria campaign occurred during a period of fierce chiefly disputes among the Ga, and at a time when the office of the priest at the House of Korle was vacant.

1852 48th Rep. Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. p. cxxxi The writer of this..has been led with astonishment to see how slightly he has as yet penetrated into the depths of the Ga (Accra) language.

1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. II. ix. 173 The land of the Akan and Gá races.

1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 330 The Gã tribes of the Gold Coast likewise have a week of seven days and some nine hours.

1963 Listener 7 Feb. 231/2 African languages are being studied as the modern languages of Europe are studied in European universities. A Ga student learns Akan.

2017 Herald (Ghana) (Nexis) 27 Oct. According to Ga tradition, the kingship rotates among four royal houses.

1875 Nature 16 Dec. 137/1 The salts of Ga which M. Lecoq de Boisbaudran has used in his researches, have been from the blend of Pierrefitte.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xliv. 889 The hydroxide, Ga(OH)₃, precipitated from an aqueous solution of a gallic salt, dissolves readily in potassium hydroxide.

1990 D. F. Shriver et al. Inorg. Chem. x. 318 The use of excess Li reagent leads to the uptake of a fourth alkyl group by the Ga atom to form a salt.

2009 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 121 549/1 Extrinsic photoconductors such as gallium-doped germanium (Ge:Ga) with a typical crystal size of about 1 mm have very high sensitivity in far-infrared.