ChatterBank1 min ago
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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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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.
'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'.