Language usage question: "outwith"

[steepholm]

I would have done this as a poll, but only have a basic account.

1 a) Are you familiar with the word "outwith"?
b) Do you use it yourself?
c) Does its use strike you as affected when coming from a non-Scot?
d) Do you get the impression that it is increasing in usage outwith Scotland?

2 a) Are you Scottish (or have lived a considerable time there)?
b) Welsh/English/Irish?
c) From outwith the British Isles?

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

a natal Yorkshirewoman

I thought you were from south Wales? Or did you move there young?

[dru-marland.livejournal.com]

Yes, we moved from Yorks v early on.... another Scottish word I like is 'byke' for a wasp nest. And there's a nice short disquisition on the Auld Alliance in the works of Jane Grigson, who contended (possibly mischievously) that when scottish milkmaids called "Proochy moo" to the cattle, they were actually saying "Approachez moi".... oh yes, and partan for crab. We had a book in primary school called Angus the Tartan Partan.