Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1907 — A Thing of Many Names. [ARTICLE]

A Thing of Many Names.

The Thames lias been the cause of much controversy. Its name has been variously stated as Tameses, Tarnese, Tamises (at the juncture of the Isis and Tame, near Dorchester), Tamisa, Tamesa, Thamisia, Thamesis and finally Isis' (where it flows between the Oxfordshire and the Buckinghamshire shores). Thus at Oxford it is still often called the Isis until it receives the shallow river Tame just below Dorchester, from which point it is called Thames. Historians trace this error to an early attempted division of the Latin word Tamesis into two Words, Tame esis or Tame Isis, suggested perhaps by the existence of the Tame in Buckinghamshire., The Saxons called it the Thames, ancient maps and documents designating it Thamesis Fluvius. —From “In Thamesland.”