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>>>I live in the county of Sussex, from Sudsexe, from "south Saxons"
>>>Similarly we have the county of Essex and there used to be a kingdom of Wessex
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>>thank you for sparing us Northampton, Southampton and Littlehampton
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>>;-)
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>>n
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>I know not of their etymology. Why so?

i seem to remember an old joke

also http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/clips/

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