The word "isle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a small island, usually one without many inhabitants. For example, "My family and I spent our vacation on a small, peaceful isle off the coast of Spain."
In Richard II, Shakespeare referred to it as "this scepter'd isle, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress build by Nature itself", but perhaps what has given the UK its true fertility, particularly in song, is best summed up by that cantankerous cultural figure John Lydon: "Britain is an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration – it makes it a better place".
Last week in the wind-swept Cyclades, the isle of Paros was no exception.
"Tonight we came together, it was a positive meeting, it was a good beginning," tweeted the 67-year-old Akinci after conferring with Anastasiades in the UN buffer zone that bisects the isle.
The BBC's new docu-drama series, Armada, opened last night with visual reenactments of all the hoary tropes of Elizabethan storytelling: a beleaguered isle, led by a vacillating queen; plucky English sailors knocking together a flotilla from the few planks of driftwood and some Vaseline; wordless, faceless Spaniards, bearing down with dark crucifixes upon their captives as instruments of torture.
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"The crisis has made us reconsider the way we do a lot of things," said Anastasios Naoum, Swiss-trained general manager at the upmarket Poseidonion hotel on the Argo Saronic isle of Spetses.
The Greek isle of Skiathos seemed just the ticket for the multimillionaire.
SONNY PRIEST, a brewer on the rocky isle of Unst, high in the North Sea, says he knows what Scottish independence would mean: higher taxes and more government meddling.
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The arguments were familiar: runaway immigration, overstretched public services and an overcrowded sceptred isle v the economic and social benefits of immigration, the need to attract the brightest and the best, and incidentally how useful it would be if young workers were available to pay for the pensions and health care of an ageing indigenous populace.
On Monday evening, re-enactors planned a gathering at Breach Inlet between Sullivans Island and the Isle of Palms northeast of Charleston for a memorial service honoring both the Hunley crew and the five Union sailors who died.
