words wholly unrelated

[spoiler alert: this one will fuck you up]

island & isle

sweet scrotumburgers with mayo and relish! am i trying to tell you that the words island and isle ARE NOT etymological cousins or even cogneighbours?! that even though they are almost pronounced the same, almost spelled the same, contain the same ridiculous silent s, and mean the same thing, they don’t come from a common source? indeed i am saying this, and i am saying this while smiling like an impish toddler who just filled the room with a noxious fart.

these words aren’t even from the same language. island comes from the old english word īegland meaning “a thing on the water,” while isle comes from the latin word insula which means the same thing.

ffffffffart!