kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) (10/26/85)
In article <859@mcvax.UUCP> simon@mcvax.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) writes: [they are discussing net.internat] >talking about English Andrew, thought you might see the funny side of this! >the word OUTWITH is Scottish. It does not exist in the English >language. Having lived in Scotland and watched an American lady >struggling to understand that word only goes to prove the point that >this newsgroup is badly needed. Foo! 'tain't no such thing! 'outwith' most certainly *does* exist in the English language: at least, the *real* English language, not that namby-pamby Normanised patois that those below the Humber speak... I quote: Outwith, prep. and adv. Chiefly north.; now Sc. ME [f. OUT adv. + WITH prep.; cf. INWITH and WITHOUT] Without, outside. (Shorter Oxford) Kay. -- "The only good thing that I can find to say about the idea of colonies in space is that America could, at last, have a world to herself." -- Elisabeth Zyne ... mcvax!ukc!warwick!flame!kay