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River Thames

Name: River Thames
Address: GB

51.5000°N 0.6100°E · Q19686

One English word in this atlas traces back to River Thames. It sits in United Kingdom.

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swim the Thamesverb · 20th century

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It is the answer to swimming the Tiber, with the current running the other way.

Converting to Roman Catholicism has long been described as swimming the Tiber, after the river of Rome. The Thames version reverses the journey for a move into the Church of England. Both belong to a small family of conversion jokes that also includes swimming the Bosphorus for Eastern Orthodoxy.

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