Sporran and Shoe Color

[Troglodyte]

I use the word "outwith" daily in many contexts, it's not even something that I think about. Until now!

Exactly..!

It's in regular and common usage here - I sometimes here it used as '...outwith Scotland...' to mean happenings beyond our borders.

But that is a completely different thing from 'without' Scotland...!

[Jock Scot]

Exactly..!

It's in regular and common usage here - I sometimes here it used as '...outwith Scotland...' to mean happenings beyond our borders.

But that is a completely different thing from 'without' Scotland...!

Thinking about it, we and others use the term often in a gentle agricultural way. Outwith the field, outwith a wood, outwith our remit, outwith our boundary, outwith their boundary and sometimes, not too often, outwith our knowledge! It's just a word that is common currency, even outwith agriculture, or even, outwith this website!