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[–] 173 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Ah yes the mysterious 5th gender "Kent"

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    All I know is I'm a right proper Kent

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    West-sex wessex
    South-sex sussex
    East-sex essex but no
    North-sex Nossex?

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Essex comes from Old English Eastseaxan, literally "East Saxons". In other words, this is the part of England that was invaded/settled by the Saxons and they divided their lands into east, south and west regions, plus a middle region (middle Saxons, modern-day Middlesex).

    There's no Norsex because at that time the lands to north of Saxon territory were held by the Angles. They also divided themselves into East Angles, South Angles, etc., but those names don't seem to have survived into the modern day. Interestingly though, the Kingdom of East Anglia was divided into "North Folk" and "South Folk", which is the origin of the modern-day names for Norfolk and Suffolk.

    If you've heard of the Anglo-Saxons, yeah, that's these guys, the Angles and the Saxons. The Angles came from parts of modern-day Denmark, the Saxons from parts of modern-day northern Germany. They shared a lot of common Germanic culture but were also rivals.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I had no idea! Thank you for the great explanation.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    To be honest, I didn't either but I wanted to know where all these names come from. So I did some Googling and that's what I found. Apologies if I've mangled anything, but I think I got the broad strokes right. Etymology (the study of the origin and evolution of words) is neat!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Sorry, I Kent

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Kent's been always the weirdo...

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Well, I Kent explain this

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    When you stop in the middlesex to wonder wtf is up with kent.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That is a deliciously terrifying username.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I laughed at Kent.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    One of these is a county in RI (Kent) and two of these are counties in MA (Essex and Middlesex). There’s also two other MA counties from the Anglo territories north of this map (Norfolk and Suffolk).

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Kent is surrounded by sex.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I'm sus sex

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    🎶"I'm just Kent!"🎵

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    it's in the gay

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Oh fuck. Which one is Irish? Actually, which one is American, but I like to say I'm Iriish because reasons?

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