phonetics...

[jling]

my colleague and i actually had a serious discussion about this...

iron

do you pronounce it as "eye-ren" or "eye-yern"?

his theory is, in english, you need to pronounce the "r".
moreover, "irony" is pronounced as "eye-ren-ni".
and "eye-yern" is for "ion" (which i pronounce as "eye-yon")

urghh....

Comments

[daynema]

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=iron
it is eye-yern
jap pronounced it as eye-long!