It never stops to annoy me.

[Mugshot]

How about it gets renamed the English Chanel?

 

[Drago]

It's only right that it's called the English Channel. After all, the Channel Islands aren't French either.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Mer de France

I see what you did there.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'll give it 10 posts before this ends up in N&CA..

 

[Drago]

I guess we should thank our lucky stars that old Gavroche isn't Spanish - he'd have an apoplectic fit about Gibraltar!

 

[snorri]

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

Thanks for the translation Gavroche, for many years I had believed La Manche was French for The Minch.

 

[Beebo]

Great Britain is only called Great to differentiate it from the smaller Brittany.

Don’t tell Brexiteers that, they think it is called Great for some colonial power reasons.

Also Anglo Saxons are all German immigrants.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

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

Mer de!

 

[Glow worm]

I guess we should thank our lucky stars that old Gavroche isn't Spanish - he'd have an apoplectic fit about Gibraltar!

As long as we don't mention Llivia, we'll be fine

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

How about it gets renamed the English Chanel?

Better not play with the spelling. We had trouble agreeing how to spell Concorde.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not according to Garmin

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Foreign policy and knowledge is not a strength of the USA.

 

[Slick]

Thanks for the translation Gavroche, for many years I had believed La Manche was French for The Minch.

 

[Mr Celine]

Call it something else entirely. How about a neutral name like Thinipuff Sea or Fattyfer Channel?

 

[Freds Dad]

It's the same reason that what everyone else calls the Bay of Biscay after a bit of Spain the French call the Baie De Gascogne.

After the footballer?

 

[PeteXXX]

And the reason we now have UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) is, apparently, because France didn't want GMT to be used as the international standard..