Question #118594. Asked by
BaronBatty.
Last updated Jan 06 2017.
We do see some counties that famously ended with the suffix -sex – Essex, Sussex, Middlesex and the former county of Wessex. The –sex ending doesn’t imply anything rude, merely that Saxons had settled there after they invaded. So Essex is kingdom of the East Saxons (Eastseaxe), Wessex the West, Sussex the South and Middlesex the Middle kingdom.
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