Date:  Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:14:20 -0300

From:  Chris Brooks <chris[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HSCC.KUNIV.EDU.KW>

Subject: Re: "On the Thames.."



Yes, Ditra and Ken, the Connecticut river is pronounced as spelled,

Thames-rhymes-with-James-and-begins-with-interdental-unvoiced-fricative.

Incidentally, the small city of Norwich is pronounced differently, too.

The 'w' is pronounced, and it would be 'nor-witch' except that the

prevailing CT accent makes it closer to 'naw - witch.'!



Other New England place names vary from their English counterparts--

memory fails me this instant--but the CT city of Berlin is stressed

on the first syllable: BER-lin. I think this was a circa-WW II

change, as a result of some anti-German feeling. ADS-ers, please

correct if I'm wrong.  Chris Brooks / Kuwait via Hartford.