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The word 'marathon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
marathonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 marathon in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Beuy, that wis a marathon session - I wis baggan up me on page 31

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Fernielea - ah - marathon on page 187

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
t it like I'd jist finished a marathon. We heaved the bed intae the on page 23

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
a 6 week lead-up period tae a marathon reachin’ in the 4th week a
wis trainin’ fir the Glesga Marathon. He reckoned he wid dae it in
2 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
oan the sofa, a Sean Connery marathon on the telly, naturally. —A
1 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
ay tae escape unless ye wur a marathon swimmer. He must huv been ric

@Chazzbat tweeted
anely 50, but they wur cried Marathon until Ah wis a teenager.(2020)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
is u get oot there and do it marathon man ???????(2020)
like am gane ti be rinning a marathon the morn.just a half yin. #Gr(2012)