PalenQ

I have never heard the host of Jeopardy say "other possible answers that we would have accepted are..." so I don't see much point in bringing it up. It would be like accepting the word quicksilver instead of mercury.>

Brought up because it is an example of how many Americans naturally use the word Chunnel and is an accepted term in fact the only term to many here and some in U.K. like annhig.

chartley

It's odd how some people find it hard to be corrected when they are told they are using the wrong term. In their eyes, being wrong is a position of strength, and the more wrong the better.

There are probably some people who think that the Australian national anthem is Waltzing Matilda. Their conviction does not make the error valid.

It's worse when people bang on about their error to excess.

PalenQ

You miss the point - it is not an incorrect term in the U.S. but the vernacular. If folks knew better they would say the correct term. The only point here is that Chunnel is what we call it in U.S. (except few in the know) and that is a fact.

Don't see why the approbation.

It's worse when people bang on about our naive errors to excess without understanding it's just the natural thing that comes to many American minds.

PalenQ

I hope to see the light at the end of the Chunnel for this thread!

chartley

I am not too concerned about what other people in the U.S. do.

Your are the person who insists on using this particular name, largely to annoy, even when you are told by various of those more local to the place what is the normal one.

janisj

Not just locals. He's been told by other Yanks too but . . . pity him. Seems he has lost his paint distributer and is in some sort of serious withdrawal. Poor dear man. If it makes him better to think that - good on him

MissPrism

According to Chunnel.com you can fly or swim the “Chunnel”. They also push the London Pass.

PalenQ

Your are the person who insists on using this particular name, largely to annoy, even when you are told by various of those more local to the place what is the normal one.>

I am writing for Americans who often only know that name - like if I am writing about getting a large 'trunk' when renting a car I would not say 'boot', etc.

That is a direct parallel to what you are scolding me for. Or telling folks to 'pick up' their rental car instead of 'collect', etc.

Why should I tailor comments to the relatively few Brits (and some American wannabe Brits) on Fodor's? Again often responding to folks who only know 'chunnel'- yes Google Chunnel and you get many American sites using Chunnel - why - because that's what we call it or most of us.

Anyway I have gone to saying both terms not in such postings or try to - saying Chunnel and Eurostar and Channel Tunnel in attempt to inform common Americans about that. But to use only Eurostar trains may not connote to common Yanks trains thru the Channel Tunnel.

So this being a largely American-dominated forum I feel comfy using terms most Americans use - what is wrong with that? Or should I use British terms like 'boot' and 'collect' your car instead of trunk and pick up your car?

Obviously on American dominated forum Americanisms cannot be wrong IMO -if it were a British dominated forum (as some apparently think) it would be different.

Q= What is the preferred term - Channel Tunnel or Euro Tunnel or something else?

StCirq

<<like if I am writing about getting a large 'trunk' when renting a car I would not say 'boot', etc.>>

There is no such linguistic equivalence. It's not a matter of British English versus American English; it's the difference between the wrong name for anything in any language and the right name for it.

Anyway, Who Gives a F if you want to call it something stupid?

And GetLink is just horrible too.Chunnel is even better than that IMO.

kerouac

Interesting, your choice of the word "dominated," Pal. Make Fodor's great again!

kerouac

As for GetLink, I don't care what they choose to call the company. Did anybody shriek in horror when Kraft Foods became Mondelez? After all they didn't rename their delightful gooey orange dinner mix. Nor has GetLink changed the name of the Eurotunnel.

PalenQ

Anyway, Who Gives a F if you want to call it something stupid?>

Exactly - WGAF? Always mysterious to me why folks -purists - care at all - we all know of what we speak. And yes kerouac this is a forum with predominately Americans which is why our vernacular for terms is quite proper I think - if not why not? If it were British mainly I'd use what I thought ordinary Brits use - and watching Coronation Street tells me all I need to know about that!

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historytraveler

For someone who keeps talking about letting the argument go. Let it go!

Nikki

Hi Ann. (I’m just letting you know you’re not invisible.)

annhig

Thanks, Nikki.

<<Your are the person who insists on using this particular name, largely to annoy, even when you are told by various of those more local to the place what is the normal one.>>

ah yes, I am indeed the invisible and indeed the inaudible one, who probably lived closer to the locus in quo than anyone else here.

But goodness knows why people get so worked up about things like this. I've given up, having more important things to think about.

kerouac

What really gets me worked up is the title of the original post with its incorrect apostrophe. It injures my eyes every time I see it.

CounterClifton

It takes real anti-marketing skills to come up with something even more generic than "Channel Tunnel". "Chunnel" may sound like the aftereffects of binge drinking but it's more clever and descriptive than Getlink.

kerouac

Or Mondelez, if you had been actually following the discussion?

PalenQ

For someone who keeps talking about letting the argument go. Let it go!>

Rather fun - don't take this all seriously and I could care what others call it and hope the same. But it's rather fun and take it as such - not sure why some can't understand that.

StCirq

<<predominately >>

You mean predominantly. Jeez.