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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There's a hymn describing Calvary hill as being "without" the city walls - weekly church as a child and it took me a long time to realise it was outside and not lacking.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Lizzie27 said:
    I'd never heard of 'outwith' before. In what context do people use it?
    It's used in the context of saying, for example, someone lives outwith the village ie not in the village, in other words outside of.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    I'm an incomer and I say jag .... but then I've lived here for 30+ years.

    I've adopted lots of local words, the best being 'munter' closely followed by 'minging'.
    No translation is needed.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    My favourite one is gonna nae dae that.  My accent isn't very good, you say it Fairygirl, you'll say it better than me.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    We'd say it as Greg Hemphill does on Chewin' the Fat, in the Lighthouse sketches @Uff ;)
    "Gonnae no' dae that..."
    The follow up [to Ford's response] is good - "Just.....gonnae no' "

    Mingin' is a great word @Bee witched. Munter too, although I didn't think it was exclusively a Scottish term.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    That's the one.  :)
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I thought minging was widespread throughout the UK but, you’re quite right, @Bee witched the origin is from the Scottish word ming - a bad smell.

    @Uff … outside of . I don’t think I would use that phrase but it is becoming universally used. Alas, as is off of as well.
    Rutland, England
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Hi @Fairygirl,

    I first heard munter when I moved up here.
    The equivalent in scouseland would be "she had a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp" 

    Bee x

    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That's a good one too @Bee witched - the wasp. 
    We'd add 'pure' in front of mingin' @BenCotto, certainly in the west. Edinburgh folk are much posher  ;)

    We've gone a bit off track in our curmudgeonliness.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I know @ Fairygirl but it's fascinating. If I said I sometimes coupy down, would you know what I meant? and what alleyways are?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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