Grammar
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Grammar
Outwith - collected quotes
Collected outwith quotes
Some time ago I wrote a post titled 'Is outwith a word?' (link below), which continues to get quite a lot of hits. The preposition outwith is used in educated Scottish English to mean something like 'outside, not part of'. One way to look at it is as the opposite of within.
Recently there have been a couple of comments on that post which have led me to look for examples among well-known Scottish writers, and I thought it might be a good idea to collect these examples of outwith together, where possible linking to them in Google Books or other source.
I've also included a section with more historical use, often using facsimiles from the books themselves. Apart from anything else, these show what the Scottish English of the Court and the Law of these times looked like, and the sort of spellings that were then prevalent.
As it is my intention that this should be an ongoing work, and that I will be adding examples to it as and when I find them, I've made a page rather than a post for them, which can be found here.
- Collected outwith quotes
- Is outwith a word?
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- Silly Unstranded Preposition At The Bbc
Spotted on the BBC News website The three [South Korean mobile networks] are selling the phone now to get round government restrictions on to whom they can sell new handsets. Presumably the writer was trying to avoid ending the sentence with a preposition....
- Finding Language In Context - Google Site Search
Let's say you've found a new word. You've looked it up in a dictionary and found an example sentence or two. Perhaps you've also found what other words it collocates with. (I'll be looking at some online tools to find collocates,...
- Random Thoughts On The Expression Vanishingly Unlikely
At language blog The Stroppy Editor, Tom Freeman takes the Guardian to task for the way it treats part of a submission (for a government consultation process on child poverty) from a team led by Alan Milburn, "ex-Labour minister turned coalition...
- Some Random August Ramblings
In Britain, August is known in the media world as the silly season. Politicians and business people etc are away on holiday, but journalists still have to find something to write about. The result is that newspapers are full of silly stories which wouldn't...
- Some Words Are Simply Outwith Some People's Understanding. A Rant In Defence Of The Word 'outwith'.
Related post If you'd prefer to read a more concise post about outwith, you can find a few examples and various links at another (much shorter) post I wrote on this subject more recently: Q and A - Is outwith a word I was once explaining the Edinburgh...