From: utzoo!watmath!rvpalliende
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: island
Article-I.D.: watmath.3036
Posted: Thu Jul 15 15:05:37 1982
Received: Thu Jul 15 20:31:56 1982

Island derives from Old English igland
Isle derives from Latin insula.
Spelling island with an s became fashionable because some
ignorant scholars didn't know the first fact but knew the second one.
It was ritzy then, it is stupid now.