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[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah yes the mysterious 5th gender "Kent"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I believe it's pronounced "Künt" ...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Actually that’s pronounced ‘Lorry Park’

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They've got Kentergy!

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Put either \ or 2 spaces at the end of each line

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thank you Sonic the Hedgehog for your opinion 👍

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There is no sex cuz you Kent

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it’s what you are having.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Nosex for dinner again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well they could've had northsex, but it was too cold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I, uhh, wish it was missing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's located in your mother's basement, along with yourself

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That’s Wales

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All I know is I'm a right proper Kent

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ok, Kent is the 5th "sex." What pronouns do Kents prefer?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll be honest, those Angles sound quite obtuse!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because nobody can understand what they're talking about in the North.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It got rebranded to Mercia 8)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I Kent

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kent's been always the weirdo...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Kent's into some sick shit, we don't associate with him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Always running into phone booths whenever there's trouble. What does he do in there?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Well, I Kent explain this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I laughed at Kent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is a deliciously terrifying username.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just make sure to wear goggles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta say time squirrel is a fantastic username. Thoughts of wacky romps run through my head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’d be a cat VI And still no one in Louisiana would leave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kent is surrounded by sex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sus sex

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

🎶"I'm just Kent!"🎵

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it's in the gay

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