strathspey@strathspey.org:45604

John Chambers

Re: Divided by a common language (was Reels and Hornpipes)

June 21, 2006, 3:11 p.m. (Message 45604, in reply to message 45599)

Andrew Smith commented:
| John Chambers wrote:
| > "But now that we all know what it means, there's no longer any
| > reason to change it. ;-)"
|
| but remember there is life beyond "Strathspey", John.

What?  There are SCD dancers not on this list? ;-)

In any case, I've seen  "outwith"  occasionally,  and  just
considered  it  a  rare synonym for "outside".  I think I'd
picked up that it had some UK association, but didn't think
of it as especially Scottish.  I'm a bit surprised that, in
this day of such easy  international  communication,  there
are English-speaking people who don't know the word.

We do have a minor problem in English, in that the opposite
of "within" obviously should be "without", but that's taken
for a rather different meaning.  That's typical for such  a
poorly designed language, I guess.


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