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Kay | 19:24 Sat 30th Oct 2004 | History
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If Essex is east,Sussex south,Wessex west,whats north? I've never hear of a Northex or Nuthex,saying this,I am a bit daft!

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On the weather forecast, they often mention Northy Stingland.

 

The Saxons weren't keen on the inclement weather they have oop North, so stayed in the South of the country.

Completely off topic, but reading my post again has reminded me about the classic Morecambe & Wise sketch where Eric is a newspaper seller, calling out loudly, "Eeny Stannit! Eeny Stannit".

 

Ernie pedantically corrects him, "No, it's Even-ing Stan-dard, Even-ing Stan-dard".  Eric tries several times to get his tongue round this.  When Ernie goes, it turns out that the newspaper really is called the Eeny Stannit!

What a team!  I'm about to start reading "The Book What I Wrote (My Life With Eric and Ernie)" by Eddie Braben.

 

Wonderful sketch indeed, Steve...but wasn't it 'Morny Stannit'?
Yep. It was, "Morny Stannit!"

Fina the sex bit is Saxons

there werent any saxons in the North, just the Danes.

This answer may be wrong but is more on-message than "was it eeny stannit or morny stannit?"

'North' is a relative term, Peter. I live nowadays on the south coast and the old lady who was my neighbour when I first moved here used to claim that southern people were much less friendly than they were in her home town 'in the north'. When I asked where she had lived then, she said: "Bath."

It's true the Saxons tended not to move to the north of England, but surely the most northerly area they did colonise might subsequently have been called 'Nossex'.

Didn't Norfolk and Suffolk originate from the 'North folk' and the 'South folk'
There is a Middlesex
Wessex is a region invented by Thomas Hardy.
Nothing to do with Saxon or any other invader.
'West Seaxe was' the name in Old English of a kingdom in western England in Anglo-Saxon times. Clearly, that is what became 'Wessex' and Hardy did not invent that modernised version of the name. The earliest recorded use of it was by W Barnes in his 'Poems of Rural Life' published in 1868.

I think it must have been "Morny Stannit".  My memory must be going!

 

Nossex is still to be found in my house :( 

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