How do you call the Tunnel to France?

[Vienaindy]

I'm wondering how you all call it as my BF is calling it the Chunnel and I think he is wrong!

I'm sure the Yes Minister episode talks about the Chunnel.

I remember it being called the Chunnel. But like others said, it didn’t really stick.

I normally hear it referred to as Eurotunnel, but Chunnel is used too.

it’s one of those stupid words like Brexit that was made up from mixing two other words for convenience.

I call it The Eurostar. Who calls it the Canal Tunnel? Never heard a single soul ever call it that!

Chunnel Tunnel.
I think the official name of the project when it was planned/constructed was the Chunnel Tunnel Rail Link, or CTRL

The Eurostar is a train. The Channel Tunnel is a tunnel through which various trains, including the Eurostar, travel.

I call it the Eurotunnel.

Channel Tunnel is the name of the tunnel but Eurotunnel is the company you buy tickets through

Eurostar is just for the train, not the car

What are the French equivalents - Le Tunnel and Le Shuttle possibly?

One of your options is Canal Tunnel? Why would it be called that? Chunnel sounds ridiculous and I've never heard anyone saying it.
I'd just say channel tunnel if I had to. But generally I'd just say 'Eurostar' if by train or 'I'm driving to France'.

I wish it did look like that 😂

It's the channel tunnel, because Chunnel is a bit cringe.

Although Le Chunnel (with a French accent) is somehow better..

I remember it opening. Chunnel was the newspaper headline/nickname as PP have said short for Channel Tunnel.

Lots more newspapers at the time as internet was in it's infancy and mobile phones were not so mobile...

In France it’s called the rather boring ‘Tunnel sous la Manche’. Tunnel under the Channel.

Have fun with it. we take the trip a few times a year at this point and go with

la mannel
the manchunnel
la tunnel
the manche
macho macho manche
le shut-tunnel
la tunche

with either much complaining about delays or utter astonishment to be waved through with not even enough time to stop for a wee.

We call the actual tunnel 'the tunnel'.

We call Le Shuttle, the company that runs the trains that carry vehicles through the tunnel 'Le Shittle'. This is because their service is buggered more often than not.

Channel Tunnel or Le Shuttle

I’m very local to it, use it maybe 4 times a year. Have never called it the Chunnel. I refer to as Le Shuttle mostly.

Not everybody on the forum has English as a first language. Unless you genuinely can’t understand the post, it’s quite impolite to draw attention to it. How’s your French?

How do I call it? I usually just whistle and it comes to a stop.

🤣🤣

I actually read the OPs post with a French accent. It sounds very chic in a French accent.

We call it the Eurostar because that's the only way we've ever gone through it. We use it regularly. Even though I know that's the name of the train and not the tunnel.

I guess otherwise I'd call it the Channel Tunnel? I don't know.

I remember folk calling it Chunnel many years ago but it's not common at all any more.

This

This thread has made me realise that I call it many things!
Euro tunnel
Channel tunnel
the tunnel
and yes, the Chunnel!

Chunnel.

I would call it th channel tunnel by default but if I’m talking about catching a train as a foot passenger then I would call it Eurostar. And ‘chunnel’ is, or at least was, a common contraction.

I call it Eurotunnel, but it has been re-branded as 'Le Shuttle' by some 'experts' at a cost of several millions of euros...

I wonder how long they spent to come up with that name?

I think those who say they have never heard it called the Chunnel are young. In 1993 when it was built it was definitely the Chunnel.