Regions

[Kay]

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!

[SteveD]

On the weather forecast, they often mention Northy Stingland.

 

[archbishop]

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

[SteveD]

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.

 

[Quizmonster]

Wonderful sketch indeed, Steve...but wasn't it 'Morny Stannit'?

[omblod]

Yep. It was, "Morny Stannit!"

[Peter Pedant]

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?"

[Quizmonster]

'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'.

[Famous5]

Didn't Norfolk and Suffolk originate from the 'North folk' and the 'South folk'

[Octavius]

There is a Middlesex

[Ray the DJ]

Wessex is a region invented by Thomas Hardy.
Nothing to do with Saxon or any other invader.

[Quizmonster]

'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.

[SteveD]

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

 

[Mr.Ix]

Nossex is still to be found in my house :(