> >I-ron is traditional and allows the singer to create an iron-like
> >quality to the passage
>
>Not to mention the fact that..IRONY..or IRONIC are
>pronounced eye.ron.ee and eye..ron..ick. In Oz anyway. :)
Ah yes, but iron and irony are not linguistically related, despite so
many shared letters. Thus their pronunciations should not be
expected to match. (Compare tot and total.) : )
Your nitpicky correspondent,
Naomi
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