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[Chris F. Waigl]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 18:54 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:26:04PM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > The Briticism that used to boggle me was "outwith" for "without."
>
> Which Mark wrote about the other week on LL:
>
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003262.html

As I understand "outwith", it means, most of the time, something like
"outside of" (not "without").

Chris Waigl

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