Why 'outside of'?

'Put wood i'thole, lad.'

I remember in Scotland hearing in court 'If you will be upstanding...'

Out the door is Lancashire usage too, anno, so probably not American first.

It's taken me many years in England to realise that 'outwith' is outwith the normal English usage!
I object to 'off of' as in 'we got off of the bus.' However, brought up as I was in Scotland, I was quite happy with 'out the window' and 'out the door', which I think someone has objected to as being American usage.

Love both those Scots usages, g23 .

The opposite of 'uncouth' is 'couthie' - at least it is here in Central Scotland.

The 'outside of' reminds me that I only recently discovered that the word 'outwith' in common usage locally is not a standard English word. It is mainly used here in phrases such as 'Outwith these opening times please contact .......' or 'It is outwith the boundaries ......'.

My late sister was Ruth - it was not an appropriate name as she was one of the most unpleasant people I have ever met. She gave my poor mother no end of grief.

The dictionary definition of 'ruth' is 'a feeling of pity,distress or grief'
A Jane Austen character refers to someone as 'full of ruth'
My younger DD is named Ruth but more often addressed as 'Ruthie'.I thought it was a beautiful simple name which couldn't be corrupted.
French people find it impossible to pronounce!!

Ruthless - there's another one. You never hear of anyone being ruthfull...or ruthful...?

Yes. The death of each days life, chief nourisher in life's feast (is it fattening?)

It's 'care' not 'time', isn't it? Sorry!

Macbeth on sleep I think.

More like uncouth and the unravelled sleeve on 'ere sometimes! c/f parties beside hospital beds, hidden behind a Stonehenge party.

How about 'the ravelled sleeve of time' (---sp?)

That should be couth.

I use the word cough occasionally

Street speak: "I'm dead gormful, me!"

There are a few words that don't seem to have an opposite, or at least not one that is in use - when did you ever hear anyone described as 'couth'?
Then there is 'flammable' - which means the same as 'inflammable' and ought to mean the opposite.
I love word and phrases - The Wind in the Willows is my favourite. Gerard Manley Hopkin's poetry is full of beautiful word play.

Yeah, why not, anagram?

Gormful?

- Thanks!

Sorry, I was a bit late there;
Always knew the word gormless, but never thought what the opposite was !
And wikipedia doesn't know it.

'Gormless' in Lancashire definitely means stupid, witless. Another good term of contempt was 'barmpot'.

Hey, I found seven different definitions of 'gorm' online and none of them fits....what does it mean?

Well, oxon, gorm or gaum is apparently from an old Norse word. Perhaps it is used mainly in the north of Britain for that reason. Here is the Chambers definition:
"gaum2 /göm/ or gorm /görm/ (dialect)
noun
Notice, heed, regard, attention
Understanding
transitive verb
To pay attention to, heed
To understand
ORIGIN: ON gaumr heed, attention
gaumˈless or gormˈless adjective
Stupid, witless, vacant"