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JumbleModerator
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Re: US Warships [Re: Jumble]
      #2771 - 07/04/03 09:45 PM

Note the Battleship Texas in Gulo's post on San Jacinto State Park . It's off to the left.

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visu
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Re: US Warships [Re: GEC_Admin]
      #2826 - 07/07/03 05:14 PM

Do people in the Groton area pronounce the river Thames as ThAmz or as Temz?

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Re: US Warships [Re: visu]
      #2828 - 07/07/03 06:10 PM

Good question Vesuvius. I think it is "Themms". We don't want our subs going under the Tower Bridge. Here is corroboration!

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Re: US Warships [Re: Jumble]
      #4012 - 08/11/03 12:32 PM

I saw a reference to the Thames of Ontario, Canada, recently and was reminded of this thread.
I sent a note to

"Cathy Quinlan" (quinlanc@thamesriver.on.ca ) about the Ontario Thames and received:

"Yes, the Thames of Ontario was names after the river in England by Lt.
Gov. John Graves Simcoe (around 1780).

It is pronounced "Temz" as in England. So many folks get it wrong.

Hope that helps,

Cathy Quinlan
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority"




I also sent a note to "Reference Librarian" (reference@grotonpl.libraryofconnecticut.org)
about the Connecticut Thames and received:

"In Groton we pronounce the Thames River like James except with a
TH in front instead of the J."

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Re: US Warships [Re: visu]
      #4014 - 08/11/03 04:12 PM

So it's "Thaymz" in Connecticut, and "Temz" everywhere else! You would think they might pronounce themselves "connektikut"!

Great research,Visu. Commendable tenacity! We all learned something. Let's keep on rollin' along!

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Thames [Re: visu]
      #4023 - 08/11/03 10:32 PM

Aye, I used to live on the Thames (actually Upper Thames) in London, Ontario. (pronounced Temz, as you say!) Just north east of us was the Avon River, and the city of Stratford, home of the world famous Shakespeare Theatre. Can ye get any more original?

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Re: What land-locked ship is this? [Re: lunatech]
      #4427 - 08/30/03 05:32 PM

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Found this destroyer near Las Vegas. Seems to have been launched into a dry lake....and sank....sideways. Is this artwork, or a coincidence?

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Re: What land-locked ship is this? [Re: Jumble]
      #4428 - 08/30/03 05:43 PM

That's pretty impressive. Wonder what they be a fishin for?

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Re: What land-locked ship is this? [Re: Lrae]
      #4439 - 08/31/03 08:56 AM

Fossil fish, obviously! Why else would they be anchored near Azure Drive and Pole Line Road?



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Re: What land-locked ship is this? [Re: seer]
      #4441 - 08/31/03 09:03 AM

GOOD ANSWER!!

And who said Seer didn't have a sense of humor?


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