From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: Italian spelling Article-I.D.: utah-gr.474 Posted: Fri Jul 9 00:43:09 1982 Received: Fri Jul 9 05:25:27 1982 References: watmath.2956 Sure, island is derived from isle. (OF course, that only reduces it to the next obvious question.) =Spencer