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

[aryky.livejournal.com]

1a) yes
b) I actually find it hilarious you should ask, because. . . I go through stages of using weird slang with myself, and lately my weird slang for something being possible is that it's "not outwith the bounds [of possibility]. So. . . I use it privately, as kind of a joke, but I would not use it in communication with other people.
c) I don't know that I would even expect a Scot to use it! I think of it as "archaic" rather than Scottish, like communicator, only unlike communicator, I don't think I ever knew it was Scots, so I can't be reminded of it.
d) Now I'm wondering. I don't remember having encountered it in contemporary usage lately, but, otoh, there must be some impetus for my having started thinking "outwith the bounds" so much recently.

2a) No. I lived six months there. . . .
b) No.
c) yes.