Comment by afandian
8 hours ago
> I didn't work on the Chunnel. That was mainly a British guy named Henry
The British guy named Henry might have named it after another feat of engineering completed around the same time.
8 hours ago
> I didn't work on the Chunnel. That was mainly a British guy named Henry
The British guy named Henry might have named it after another feat of engineering completed around the same time.
Or from the Seinfeld episode "The Pool Guy" (Aired November 1995) which had a fictional movie called "Chunnel" -- probably based on the very same channel tunnel.
From Google (AI slop at top of search results): "Chunnel" is not a real movie but a fictional film from the TV show Seinfeld. It is depicted as a disaster movie about an explosion in the Channel Tunnel...
Weird hearing that name now though. Around that time, everybody referred to it as the "Chunnel", but I don't think I've heard it as anything but the "Channel Tunnel" since maybe 2000. I suspect even that usage is now limited to only taking cars on the train from Folkestone. Every time I've travelled on it as a regular passenger from London, it's just been referred to as the Eurostar without any mention of the tunnel at all.
Yes, it's definitely a word from a 1990s geography textbook.