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How do you pronounce the name of the river "Thames". I've heard it pronounced different ways here in the United States, so I thought I'd ask someone from the United Kingdom. Thank you
4 Answers
- ?Lv 78 years ago
TEMZ.....In North Wales, as a kid, I remember a horrid teacher laughing when I read it out loud as Thaymz...She never bothered correcting me and was ages before I realised was the river THAMES (TEMZ) running through LONDON, which was so far away to me as a child....Ended up living, for many years, just a few hundred metres from it.....
- ?Lv 48 years ago
Coxy is correct (the 'e' is soft and slightly emphasised, not 'ee'). The origination of the name is lost in antiquity. The romans called it Thamesis but it is known that that was an interpretation of a much older name.
They also called London, Londinium.
Robin.. It is pronounced temz, not tems, or I'm not a Cockney kid
Source(s): A Londoner - Anonymous8 years ago
Sound like "Temz"
Ignore the h and make the first a an e
