How Not?

[Sexnotgender]

AIBU to think how not is a perfectly acceptable question?

My non Scottish husband thinks how not is not a question.

Frankly I think someone from a country that uses the phrase now now doesn’t get to judge my grammar!

@TheThingWithFeathers totally! I'm now starting to doubt the way I say it! Just repeating over and over in my head 😂

@thethingwithfeathers same here! I have no idea how I say it now!!! I'm sure I had a SH in it somewhere! But have said it so many times in a row, that I'm now confused!!!

@Ledehe why wouldn't you say outwith outside Scotland?

I'm NI & we have all the same things as mentioned here. My English pil's friends once queried all my 'uch'ing at things as I wasn't Scottish!!

Apparently diluting juice isn't a phrase used in other parts either!

What???!!!

What do people use instead of diluting juice? It’s diluting juice. That’s what it is! There’s no other word!!

Although I'm saying it aloud not in my head. Think my poor dog is going to run the fridge to get me a bottle in a minute to make me shut up!

Just asked DH how he says it and he said he thinks it's PRE-secco or PRI-secco and now I'm all confused

constant I had this argument with a friend when we were in a pub. I said I wanted a diluting orange, he looked at me I horror, he asked if I meant squash?? He ended up teasing me and said ask the bar person for diluting orange and see what he says, bet he says it's squash!

So went to the bar and asked for diluting orange and mate and I waited for his reply! The bar person said "Do you mean orange cordial?" Hahaha

The juice scale goes: Diluting juice (squash), juice (all soft beverages) and fresh orange juice (actual juice). Outwith this you may find ginger, cans and full-fat juice, which is the equivalent of non-diet juice.

I only learned about outwith a few months ago and can't really conceive of a world where it's not correct. It's SO useful.

Yeah, PRI-secco is maybe more how I say too. I can't really tell what the first vowel sound is any more! Let's stick to diluting juice, aka "squash"!

Mollypolly "gonnae no" My immediate reaction as well!

I didn’t know outwith was a Scottish word?! What do other people use? It’s so useful.

@buckeejit had no idea it was used in NI too! Good auld Ulster-Scots language!
Why the rest of the world doesn't use this marvellous word, I don't know. I always end up writing outside of instead of outwith and it feels unnecessarily long when one word could do!

@StrangeTimes

Tell them squash is a bloody sport, not diluting juice.

Squash is such a shit word. It’s shit. I simply won’t accept it.

I will accept a nice refreshing glass of diluting juice however.

Definitely diluting juice, squash sounds a bit poncey haha!

As Kevin Bridges said, scots don't ask 'why?' they demand, 'how?'!

"I'm suppose to go left here, amn't I?" it's not just the amn't i in this sentence that is Scottish.

@imcold "through the house" ?

Whit? Are you fae Morningside hen? It's ben the hoose!

@Esspee 😂 we weren't allowed to say 'ben' or 'hoose' far too common!!!!

Scottish and murder for saying ‘how’ 😂😳

I’m amazed that people think it’s weird or unacceptable for Scots folk to say, “how no?” “honest tae God” etc

Never heard the gave me trouble thing.

The rest is all up there with up the road/doon the road, wait on me, divent I, dinnae, the big light, the wee shop, diluting juice etc...

And erm...get tae fuck.

Is a half loaf a thing outside of Scotland?

@crockodoodle I give up what is the other Scottish word? The missing d on suppose?

I’m Scottish but “how” instead of “why” makes me cringe.

This.

And when I used to go to a friends house as a kid her mum would say 'mon in' and I had no idea until I was about 30 she was actually telling me to come in

Honest to god is a Scot's thing??? Well I never, honest to god didn't know that!!

Was anyone else threatened with a “Skelped arkey” or a “Skelped Jaw” growing up? Or is that just my weird grandad?

Skelpt lug

What’s wrong with the back of 9😂 it’s just a bit after 9.

My Gran used to get confused about this (she was not from the UK although moved here after the war) as she never understood whether it was just before or just after 9.

Outwith is a good word but I don’t use it at work now, I stopped when I got a job largely working for English clients and none of them knew what it meant.

I say squash and diluting juice interchangeably