"Set Square" wrote in message
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Lobster wrote:


Yes, we know! The Scottish word "outwith" is actually more
economical on words that the English equivalent of "outside of".

Isn't the original (ie olde) English equivalent actually "without"?

As in,

"There is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall..."
(can't remember the rest. Mary?!)

David

You may well be right! Don't think it's used now in everyday parlance,
though - whereas the Scottish "outwith" *is*.

[Just looked up 'without' in my dictionary - and it does indeed have an
archaic meaning of "outside"].


I'm sure Shakespeare used to witter on about "who's without" meaning who's
outside, not who hasn't got one.