We middlesins people
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Reading "sex" for "sins" gives "we Middlesex people." This may be an uncited quotation from contemporary periodicals; the phrase appears in the 24 July 1912 edition of The Ottawa Journal, as well as in The Sporting Magazine, July 1846.
- Middlesex: an historic county in southeast England, now mostly part of Greater London. May be an allusion to Ireland, which was absorbed into the United Kingdom just as London absorbed the formerly independent Middlesex.
- middlesex: androgynous
- middle earth, middle kingdom: ie the place below heaven and above hell, the place in the middle, where sinning, imperfect humans live, as opposed to heaven where the perfect angels are or hell where the irredeemable devils and the damned are. We are in the place of middling sin.
