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Use in varieties of Scots

marathon Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.1 1.5 9.9 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences106 1 1 0 2 0
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of marathon in Corpus

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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

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

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) search twitter

Doric

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

1 matches

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

Southern

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