Fun facts about England Fun fact: Sussex, Wessex, Essex, and Middlesex, are all named for points on a compass, South, West, East, and Middle respectively, and represent places of Saxon occupancy. That is, Wessex means West Saxons.
But why Middle and not North, you ask. Well, Little Timmy, there's no north because no one wants to be called Nosex.
The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century and reveals the bawdy face of the Anglo-Saxons
“What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked before?
Answer: A key.”
What's a marching bands favorite Germanic Tribe?
The Saxons
If an Anglophone speaks the language of the Angles
what does that make someone who speaks the language of the Saxons?
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