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