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Are you using the word "outwith" to be funny, or is this really idiomatic in some dialect? I've seen people using "within and without" to mean "inside of and ou
by Y_Y 6y ago
Are you using the word "outwith" to be funny, or is this really idiomatic in some dialect? I've seen people using "within and without" to mean "inside of and outside of" but not in anything written in the last hundred years.
- bloak 6y agoThe word "outwith" is used in Scotland. I'm not Scottish, but I've heard Scots use the word, and Oxford English Dictionary has recent quotations for it from Scottish newspapers.
- JdeBP 6y agoAnd Hacker News within just the past 5 days. (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26438656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26438656 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399177
- Y_Y 6y agoVery interesting, thank you. > Scottish Twitter users 'shocked' after discovering the word 'outwith' is only used in Scotland [0] [0] https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/scottish-twitter-users-shocked-after-22881922 https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/scottish-twitter-...