A SEASIDE town hotel has been named as one of the best on the Isle of Wight for the 11th year in a row. Daish's Hotel, in Shanklin Old Village, has again received the TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice ...
Telegraph & Argus: Travel: Exploring the Isle of Wight on a Daish's Coach Holiday
The News Portsmouth: Isle of Wight: 'I took a coach trip to beautiful island off coast of England with rugged coast and milder climate'
Isle of Wight: 'I took a coach trip to beautiful island off coast of England with rugged coast and milder climate'
AOL: Isle of Wight travel guide: Where to eat, drink, walk and stay on England’s biggest island
If you set sail from England’s southern shore to the quietly cool Isle of Wight, you’ll find a destination that values the simple pleasures: food, fresh air and good old-fashioned fun. The isle, once ...
Isle of Wight travel guide: Where to eat, drink, walk and stay on England’s biggest island
at the same time, it has particular associations, that 'island' does not, with being poetic or flowery or in fixed phrases or very particular islands ('Isle of Wight'). So you would be totally understood if you used it instead of island, it is technically correct, but it would sound slightly fancy, like you're trying to be poetic.
The distinction between abbreviations (e.g. I.o.W = Isle of Wight) and contractions (e.g. Dr = Doctor, where the first and last letters are retained) is a useful one, but has been eroded in the 20c. by a widespread tendency to abandon the use of full points altogether for both types.