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Referring to the UK as 'Cross Channel'....

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  • 03-11-2007 7:13pm
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    Dub13
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    Is it correct to refer to the UK as 'Cross Channel'...?Radio stations always do this.It only seems to happen on sports reports.


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    leninbenjamin
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    i dont think so myself... the channel is a different stretch of sea entirely.


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    spurious
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    St. George's Channel perhaps.


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    gurramok
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    They must of forgotten the Celtic Sea!


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    darkman2
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    Great, another UK bashing fest:rolleyes: You should really respect the mother country. Look at all they have done for us over the years.:)

    Remember on a clear day you can see Great Britain from Wicklow so I take it that it could theoretically be refered to as a 'channel'.


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    leninbenjamin
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    spurious wrote: »
    St. George's Channel perhaps.

    when i hear people say channel without making a distinction i just immediately think english channel. I always forget about that one.


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    Pigman II
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    Dub13 wrote: »
    Is it correct to refer to the UK as 'Cross Channel'...?Radio stations always do this.It only seems to happen on sports reports.

    I guess calling it a channel rather than a sea makes it seem smaller and as such makes us feel geographically closer to our favourite local sides such as Liverpool, Man Utd and Keltic.


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    pickarooney
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    As in 'over on BBC5' - cross channel.


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    Dub13
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    darkman2 wrote: »
    Great, another UK bashing fest:rolleyes

    This has nothing to do with UK bashing its about Irish people calling the Irish sea a channel.


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    mike65
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    It should'nt be used but its become accepted short-hand so won't be stopped now!

    Mike.


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    Dub13
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    Is it only sports reported who use it...?I don't recall ever hearing anybody else use it.

    One for the kids who listened in geography class,how big can a channel be without been a sea...?


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    simu
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    OMG! So racist!

    rant, rave, etc


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    mental07
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    When I was a kid and they'd report the "cross-channel" results on the sports news on RTE, I used to think they were referring to matches that were shown on some other channel


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    Mr. Presentable
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    Dub13 wrote: »
    Is it only sports reported who use it...?I don't recall ever hearing anybody else use it.

    An attempt to make the support of English football clubs less heinous?


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    pond ?


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    [Deleted User]
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    pond ?

    Thats america I thought?

    And its a pretty crappy pond too.. i never once saw a frog!


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    mike65
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    The Irish sea is known as "the/water" the Atlantic is the Pond.

    Mike.


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    Terry
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    mike65 wrote: »
    The Irish sea is known as "the/water" the Atlantic is the Pond.

    Mike.
    Mike is correct.

    The channel thing is correct if you are on the ferry to holyhead.


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    KIVES
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    Terry wrote: »
    Mike is correct.

    The channel thing is correct if you are on the ferry to holyhead.

    I thought a Channel referred to a narrow stretch of water between two points of land through which a solid flow of traffic passes...The English Channel(Dover to Calais) yes,that's fair enough but technically I don't think 'Cross-Channel' is the right geographical/nautical term to be using when referring to Soccer results from England+never have I heard of it being called 'The Irish Channel' - think you may be incorrect there Terry


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