Silent S is rare and almost always signals a French loanword (debris, corps, rendezvous) or a spelling that was tampered with by scholars, as in island, which never had an S until the 1500s. Aisle and isle are pronounced identically to 'I'll'. Treat this as a small memorised group.
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