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minus-squareordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·2日前Sussex, Essex, and Middlesex all have the sex word in them which makes 21st century people giggle
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-22日前sussex and other places like essex and middlesex have some suffix that signifies “town” or something, presumably in anglo-saxon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNzqgU7na4 The name Essex originates in the Anglo-Saxon period of the Early Middle Ages and has its root in the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) name Ēastseaxe (‘East Saxons’), the eastern kingdom of the Saxons who had come from the continent and settled in Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex
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Sussex, Essex, and Middlesex all have the sex word in them which makes 21st century people giggle
sussex and other places like essex and middlesex have some suffix that signifies “town” or something, presumably in anglo-saxon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNzqgU7na4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex