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]

Yes, it does! In Bristol, they ask where something is by saying "Where's 'e to?', which for a long time suggested something in motion to my Hants-sprung mind.

I don't know about wife for woman. It could come from either, I'd imagine, as that's the common Germanic meaning (woman = Old English wif-man, iirc), though now preserved mostly in words like fishwife and goodwife.