It never stops to annoy me.

[gavroche]

Thank you all for your various opinions and history lesson but I still refuse to call it what you call it and will stick to the Channel. A bon entendeur, salut!

 

[PeteXXX]

What about crème anglaise?
Aren't the French just trying to steal custard from the English by giving it a French name?

I always score that out on restaurant menus and replace it with 'custard', written in green crayon.

And Jus...

 

[screenman]

What about the French fries I hear everyone shout.

 

[Biff600]

I'm confused, because I got my welsh dresser from Ikea.........................in Coventry !!

 

[winjim]

Didn't England become part of France anyway in 1066?

It would have swung the other way and France would have become part of England again in the fifteenth century had Henry V not died of the squits.

 

[screenman]

Doncaster has Frenchgate.

 

[Drago]

Presumably you will apply this new nomenclature policy even handedly, and will now drop the 'French' from French Guiana?

No? Thought not.

 

[NorthernDave]

Still, at least we don't have to worry about the German Ocean any more.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Cartes d’Anglaise....just about sums it up for me....

 

[raleighnut]

View: https://youtu.be/TXpkttGcG5I

 

[Brains]

Still, at least we don't have to worry about the German Ocean any more.

Even English maps have the North Sea marked as the 'German Ocean' up until the early 1800's

After the 29th of March 2019 it will revert back to being the German Ocean, to match the Irish Sea on the other side and the newly renamed Mer de France to the south

 

[rich p]

It never ceases to annoy me when French blokes say 'it never stops to annoy me'....

 

[snorri]

Cartes d’Anglaise....just about sums it up for me....

An industry which peaked with the Morris Minor.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

In France we call it :" La Manche" which means The Sleeve as this is what it looks like

In Italy we also call it La Manica - the sleeve.
Don't fret @gavroche I think most of mainland Europe doesn't call it the English Channel

 

[Drago]

Seeing as we nipped across it twice to save Europe from tyranny, it's quite an apt name.