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Scilly Isles
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Scilly Isles, Scilly Islands [ˈsɪlɪ], Scillies [ˈsɪlɪz]
pl n
(Placename) a group of about 140 small islands (only five inhabited) off the extreme SW coast of England: tourist centre. Capital: Hugh Town. Pop.: 2153 (2001). Area: 16 sq. km (6 sq. miles)
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Scilly Isles [ˈsɪliaɪlz] Scillies [ˈsɪliz] npl
the Scilly Isles → les Sorlingues fpl, les îles fpl Scilly
Scilly Isles [ˈsɪlɪˌaɪlz] npl the Scilly Isles, the Scilliesle isole fpl Scilly


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Whilst disembarking on your next visit to the Scillies, if you should accidentally bump into a person in uniform tapping the ground with a white stick and cursing in a strange foreign tongue, you have just met their new air traffic controller.
The Scillies are as far removed from that lifestyle as it is possible to get.
Don't expect meals on your De Havilland Twin Otter Skybus - there's barely time to watch the Cornish coast disappear before the Scillies twinkle below.
 
 
 
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