Why the english call it the channel the English channel when th efrench calls it the channel?

Answer 1

I'm french and I think the same thing
I don't why they call like this their channel

Answer 2

The French actually call it the sleeve.
English Channel because the Royal Navy dominated it for over a century.

The North sea was known as the German Sea until after the first World War

Answer 3

The English call it the English channel because we used to own both sides of it. We had to give back Calais. The French call it "the sleeve".

Answer 4

It's always been connected to us by name. From the 2nd Century it was known as the British Sea. It became the English Channel in the 16th Century.

Answer 5

What you call the English channel, we french call it La Manche.

Answer 6

Because the English aren't about to yield the last bastion of occupation of France after the loss of Calais, and the French aren't about to acknowledge English domination.

Answer 7

The same reason why we English call condoms "French Letters" and the French call them "Condom d'Anglais"

English channel this side La Manche French side

Answer 8

Since when do we have to follow what the French do?

If it wasn't for Britian, France would have been part of the German Empire in 1914 or, still, part of the Thousand Year Nazi Reich. The French are certainly not a nation to be held in high esteem by anyone.

Answer 9

Because it is south of England and not in France. Thus English Channel.

Answer 10

The French call it La Manche.
But we owned both sides of it once so finders keepers.