English channel or French channel ? Which country deserve it?

Question

France is a great power and deserve respect and historically that water way was French.why England calls it english channel?

Answer 1

"France is a great power and deserve respect and historically"

Thats just your opinion

Answer 2

Because they did, and they had the naval power to enforce their decision.

Answer 3

Neither England nor France own this international waterway. It is unlikely that they ever will and the name of it is no more than a name for purposes of identification. Whether it is English or French the place is clear.

For "history" to make a claim one must need to show that one of these two countries dominated the channel and if anything that was England and not France. Can you prove otherwise?

Why can't each country continue to call it by the name that they choose?