Originally Posted By: twosleepy
Same here on the pronunciation. Funny how "ironic" is not usually pronounced "eye yearn ick"... :0)

Soooo, that leads me to "irony". Let's vote: eye run ee or eye earn ee ???

I'll go first: eye earn ee (although I have been known to use the other; I guess I'm bipronuncial on that one...)

I would say eye-un (where u=schwa). Non rhotic promunciation, no voiced 'r' sound. (IPA ɑeən). For ironing sometimes I would pronounce the 'r' - eye-ronning, though most times I would say eye-uh-ning or eye-ning. But for irony it would be eye-ronny or eye-ruh-nee (ie IPA ɑerəniː)