2007-01-20 18:46:32 · 17 answers · asked by Dave 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
If you're french and not english.. you would'nt be expected to know that and i would say that you were being facetious or you fell asleep in class...even a five year old girl would know that. That little island on the map known BRITAIN or ENGLAND was once occupied by variable nations. I will start with the romans and they called our island britain or BRITANIA but they did'nt stay long because they had to go back and defend rome[You could'nt call it the roman channel] Then came the saxons and norse people. They occupied a large area of the island...There was NORFOLK[The north folk] SUFFOLK[The south folk] And then there was the ANGLE SAXONS who settled in ESSEX[east saxons] SUSSEX[south saxons] WESSEX[west saxons] There were so many of these angles that the island was called angle land[ENGLAND] or ANGLIA. The stretch of water between england and ireland were used well by these angles that it had to be called angles channel[ENGLISH CHANNEL] France has nothing to do with it.
2007-01-21 05:01:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hiya, No French call the English Channel "La Manche". Cheerio.
2016-05-24 04:04:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The channel is actually over English land that sunk along time ago.
2007-01-22 13:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by Stacey B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The French call it La Manche.
2007-01-20 23:25:33 · answer #4 · answered by Beau Brummell 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's only called that by the english. The french call it something different, I'd tell you what but I can't spell it.
2007-01-20 23:06:29 · answer #5 · answered by gerrifriend 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because you speak English. The French call it La Manche which means the sleeve.
2007-01-20 18:55:47 · answer #6 · answered by Leo_B_Scotch 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because we have our own name for it but the french have a different name!
2007-01-21 01:43:59 · answer #7 · answered by mich 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The French call it "the Sleeve" because it is shaped like a shirt sleeve! That is a fact.
2007-01-20 19:15:55 · answer #8 · answered by norcwood 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the french call it "la manche" which means the sleeve
and in french the Eurotunnel is "Le tunnel sous la manche" the tunnel under the sleeve. I don't think they like calling things the same in french as they are in english, but we don't realy like calling things the same in english.
2007-01-21 00:51:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would like to think its cos our navy kicked French **** for many a year but its just cos you speak English which im sure has been said about 300'000'000'000 times allready
2007-01-20 19:04:28 · answer #10 · answered by G 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋