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

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

But see the various cities with streets of the form -- Without (North Bar Without, in Beverley).


Near to me is Thanington Without - usually suffixed by shops, without pubs, without anything. I think it's outside the Canterbury Parish, but there's something odd (I forget what) about that parish system here.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Yes, I almost added "and in place names", but then I couldn't actually think of any, so didn't!

[dru-marland.livejournal.com]

close to home, there is the church of St Michael on the Mount Without, which is, unsurprisingly, on St Michael's Hill, next to (IIRC) the plague pits

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the dear old plague pits...