In France we do not know any "French Channel" but we name as  "la Manche"
what you, Anglo-Saxons, call the Channel... ;-)

Franck Frydman

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From: "Andrew Grebneff" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Europe


> >While they are part of Europe to geographers, the British Isles are
>>not considered "continental" by the people who live there.  Brits
>>and Scots speak of "going to the continent" when they refer to trips
>>across the English Channel.  The divide between the English and
>>French scientific communities in the early and mid 1800s was a much
>>wider gulf than the English Channel!
>
> The French call it the FRENCH channel... and they have probably been
> at it for longer!
>
>>continantal Europe is opposed by the British Islands. Don't ask me what
>>sense this makes... it's historical. Of course it's not geologically
>>correct, but these days only political correctness is wanted. Although
>>regarding territorial rights, geological correctness gets its chance ;)
>
> Unfortunately for them, politics and the LCD (lowest common
> denominator) do not define terms. And it is not democratic. Britain
> sits firmly on the EURASIAN continent. As do Svalbard, Siberia,
> Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.
>
> India does NOT... it is on its own plate, which is still in the
> process of colliding with Eurasia.
>
> The Poms (of which I am technically one, though I will not admit it)
> live in ignorance. One cannot  go "to the continent" when one is
> already ON that continent. So how do we educate them??
> --
> Regards
> Andrew
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