2006-10-04 05:50:28 · 10 answers · asked by robert.avenell@btinternet.com 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Well some times it feels like there's no sex up north!
2006-10-04 05:52:17 · answer #1 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's because the country was divided between the Danes in the north (the Dane Law) and the Saxons in the South.
Hence:
Essex = East Saxon
Sussex = West Saxon
Wessex= West Saxon
Suffolk are the South Folk
Norfolk - The North Folk.
You can see a sahrp change in place names when you cross the dividing lines.
Also people in the north are twice as likely to have viking genes as those in the South.
2006-10-04 23:53:51 · answer #2 · answered by Mark G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The suffix, 'sex' is a corruption of the note Saxon. and exhibits parts the position Saxon invaders settled in submit Roman Britain. as well because the East-Saxons, the West-Saxons and the South-Saxons, there have been also the middle-Saxons (Middlesex), who were placed between the different 3 communities. Why were there no North-Saxons? properly, the Germanic invasions north of the Thames were no longer predominantly Saxon yet typically attitude (a diverse tribe altogether), who finally gave their call to the full united states which we now call England (the land of the Angles). The French nevertheless call us Angleterre. So any Saxons north of the Thames wanting to call their region Norsex might want to no longer were in a position to persuade the interior reach 'pleasant' Angles of their case. you aren't any further dim in any respect, that's a honest question.
2016-12-04 06:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nossex is known as Norfolk home of the North people
2006-10-04 23:52:34 · answer #4 · answered by lizzy d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
-Sex is a saxon word for area; Sus-sex - south area, middle-sex middle area, wes-sex west area. es-sex - east area. west sussex is a subdivision of Sussex (the others being East Sussex and Brighton and Hove)
The saxons never got up north; that area was ruled by the Danes and Vikings, they had different names for areas.
2006-10-04 11:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by prof. Jack 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the saxons, which is where the sex comes from, didn't get that far. Or they become the North Folk in Norfolk.
2006-10-04 09:43:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe they don't have anough sex, not like us from Essex
2006-10-04 06:00:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They do have sex up north
2006-10-04 05:52:40 · answer #8 · answered by philipscottbrooks 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cos nossex would be a stupid name for a county.....
2006-10-04 05:52:35 · answer #9 · answered by RE789 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask you forefathers who gave these names!! lol.
2006-10-04 09:56:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋