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Surely not?

Mind that apostrophe.
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Surely not?

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Postby NomoneyNohoney » January 25th, 2017, 8:35 pm

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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Re: Surely not?

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Postby NomoneyNohoney » January 26th, 2017, 1:42 am

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."


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." ;)

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Re: Surely not?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » January 26th, 2017, 11:14 am

Oh dear.

Exercise for the reader: re-punctuate to tell a story of the foot walking around the island.

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Re: Surely not?

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Postby kiloran » January 26th, 2017, 12:58 pm

And anyway, can you have an island on the coast? I would think an island would be off the coast.

--kiloran

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Re: Surely not?

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Postby swill453 » January 26th, 2017, 2:50 pm

kiloran wrote:And anyway, can you have an island on the coast?

You can if it's not an island.

Scott.

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Re: Surely not?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » January 26th, 2017, 3:02 pm

kiloran wrote:And anyway, can you have an island on the coast? I would think an island would be off the coast.

--kiloran

How then do you count a tidal island, such as Holy Island (Lindisfarne)?

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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Re: Surely not?

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Postby quelquod » February 13th, 2017, 9:49 pm

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.


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