'Ootlin' is a grand Aberdeenshire word meaning 'outsider'. As the Scottish writer Jessie Kesson described it, ootlins are "fowk who were 'oot' and who, perversely enough, never had any desire to be 'in'." My kind of people, then, as you shall no doubt see...
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Hello Cattie,
Even an Ootlin understands
Isobel's Big Spree! :) Troy
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