A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'outwith'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
outwithOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71510
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of outwith in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
- just as good excercise is outwith a gym - not my decision to s (2020) twitter link
s dinner n strictly no travel outwith our designated health area - (2020) twitter link

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
meldrewmoment It’s obviously outwith your idea of politeness but i (2021) twitter link

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Faan ye cannae dae withoot 'outwith', ye'll be oors athoot doot. (2020)

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'This is a bit outwith my jurisdiction, you'll need on page 20

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
very much a case of something outwith oor control. on page 63
Ye hae a vyce outwith yer gub if ye can jist believ on page 95

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ocabulary; the preposition ‘outwith’ is a kenable example o thi
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
outwith/ootwi
ot’s preposition that is ‘outwith’ (or ‘ootwi’ – mair a
in gey consciously – fur ‘outwith’ bides strangly in the sphe
3 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
An A'm aye shuir tae include 'outwith', its affa orra hou it's yin (2018)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
ts, ah aye ask 'Dae ye yaise 'outwith'? Ironically, they usually re(2017)

@LairnScots tweeted
If ye're a #Scots speaker outwith the central belt, or an Engli (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
rnScots @scottishbktrust Nup. Outwith is an auld Scots legal term f(2020)