No. South Saxons .
Tick.
Oliver, eager to prove himself, took the list. He’d grown up in Lancashire, a place where the rolling hills and coal-blackened history seemed to define the very meaning of the suffix. Shire , he remembered from school, came from the Old English scir , meaning an official administrative district. It was a title of antiquity, of comfort, of home. how many counties end in shire in england
No. From Suthrige (southern region).
He sat back, counting his ticks.
Tick.
No—again, the Saxon root, not scir .