Anyroad

[Jonathan Lighter]

The Briticism that used to boggle me was "outwith" for "without."

  JL

"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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> On Jul 2, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Charlie Doyle wrote:
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>> It does appear in the OED (road n 8.d), with instances from
>> 1896 through "Remington Steele."

marked as northern dialect.

and that's _The Remington Set_, a 1976 thriller by "John
Charlton" (Martin Woodhouse), not "Remington Steele". english crooks
and cops, but i haven't found out more specific details.

arnold

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