''t's Chunnel to us and keep your silly comments about using that to yourselves IMO. It does no use to correct us and inevitably throws the thread off from its original purpose.''

Given the fact it was YOU that bought up the issue of the use of 'chunnel' and/or scoldings from Brits associated with said use on this thread, don't you think that's being somewhat hypocritical Bob?

We just call it either the tunnel or the Eurostar.

RM - yes it would appear - this is an old origin post and i did not read my earlier remarks - which were chastising Brits in advance of the sure to be comments about it's not the Chunnel, etc

<tampa - note the scolding from Brits on a current thread with the dread word CHUNNEL in its heading> - and yes there was another thread chastising Yanks for stupidly using the word Chunnel at the same time.

We say Chunnel train - you say Eurostar or tunnel, according to CW - and both are fine and should be accepted as local vernacular, neither preferred here at least over the other

Bab bad bad PalenQ!

While many Brits only think of the Eurostar as the train that goes through the Channel Tunnel, that term is more confusing to many American travelers who know "Eurostar" primarily as the trains they zip around Italy in -- Rome to Florence to Venice in particular. So while that term may be really clear to Brits, it is likely to be less clear and obvious to many other travelers.

New Pat - no doubt and even more and more as the Eurostar Italia takes over more routes in Italy

Ironically the name Eurostar was i read trademarked by Fiat or whatever Italian train engine maker and then the name was licensed by it to the Paris/Brussels-London Chunnel trains.