How do you pronounce the word "Iron?"

[Floogeldy]

I say: Eye-Ron.

Not: Eye-urn.

Goddammit.

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[bigwillq]

1. Eye-urn

:hi:

[Floogeldy]

4. Why you . . .

. . . :spank:

[bigwillq]

6. I hate to Eye-urn

:hi:

[Aristus]

2. Really?

How i-urn-ic! B-)

[sendero]

3. Well..

... you're wrong. But that's ok, I'm sure you're wrong about other things also ! :)

[Floogeldy]

7. I may be wrong about a lot of things . . .

. . . but I do know something about READING, enunciation, verbalization and pronunciation.

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[sendero]

10. Well..

.. those are my specialties, along with music, electronics, computers, cars, and women - and I'm telling ya - you is wrong!

[vixengrl]

5. Eye-rn. Yes really. One and 1/2, nearly one syllable.

It's even better as a compound, like "tar eye-rn". See, a tye-er eye-ron can help you with a flat, but tar eye-rn can help you in a brawl.

[Misunderestimator]

8. Yup... the one holdover of my texas accent... definitely "Eye-urn"

[bigwillq]

12. That's how I pronounce it

and I'm not Texan! :hi:

[Misunderestimator]

13. Cool!!

:hi: :D

[bigwillq]

14. WOW! A CT Yankee

talking like a Texan. Who knew! :)

[GrpCaptMandrake]

9. Ahrn n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

11. Eye-urn.

[Telly Savalas]

15. Eee-rone

[maveric]

16. Eye-Yen

No R's where I come from.

[liberaltrucker]

17. Where I came from......

Ahrn..It's a Southern thing:)

[DainBramaged]

18. Rust

[nemo137]

19. i-yearn. Except when it comes up in choral singing, when it turns into

Eye-rohn.

F'rinstance, Holst's "In the Bleak Midwinter"
"Earth stood hard as eye-rohn, water like a stone."