From today's Daily Mirror:-
"But tragically her foot was later discovered by a member of the public walking around Llanddwyn Island on the west coast of Anglesey."
Surely not?
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- Lemon Slice
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Re: Surely not?
But I was wrong: "Still, the myth persists that and and but should be used only to join elements within a sentence, not to link one sentence to another."NomoneyNohoney wrote:From today's Daily Mirror:-
"But tragically her foot was later discovered by a member of the public walking around Llanddwyn Island on the west coast of Anglesey."
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- Lemon Half
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Oh dear.
Exercise for the reader: re-punctuate to tell a story of the foot walking around the island.
Exercise for the reader: re-punctuate to tell a story of the foot walking around the island.
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- Lemon Quarter
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And anyway, can you have an island on the coast? I would think an island would be off the coast.
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--kiloran
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- Lemon Half
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You can if it's not an island.kiloran wrote:And anyway, can you have an island on the coast?
Scott.
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How then do you count a tidal island, such as Holy Island (Lindisfarne)?kiloran wrote:And anyway, can you have an island on the coast? I would think an island would be off the coast.
--kiloran
Off the top of my head, islands on the coast are often associated with archipelagos where inland water meets coastline, and can make for very attractive/scenic locations. As seen in Stockholm, Venice, or Amsterdam. I think you could reasonably count an island as being on rather than off the coast if it has both fresh and salt water on its own shore.
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The term 'island' is always troublesome to define simply. Is the North of Scotland an island severed from the mainland by the Caledonian Canal, or the even larger mass severed by the Forth-Clyde Canal? We even speak of Britain as an island sometimes - our island kingdom.