Tuesday Trivia!

Separating France and England is the English Channel, although obviously the French don’t call it that. They call it the Manche. What does this mean, literally?

1. The Border
2. The Creek
3. The End of the Land
4. The Reef
5. The Sleeve

SLEEVE. The narrowest point is the Strait of Dover, or the Pas-de-Calais, as the French call it. Marathon swims tend to happen here, starting with Matthew Webb’s in 1875. It took him 22 hours. Several islands in the Channel, just off the coast of Normandy, belong to Britain. But the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey still speak a Norman French and have a legally complex relationship with Great Britain. The bailiwicks have provided their names to types of cows.
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~PVPeeved