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I had the same question :D from other comments, it seems a bit controversial, no? Another one I, as a non native speaker, find odd, is "iron". People just say
by brabel 5y ago
I had the same question :D from other comments, it seems a bit controversial, no?
Another one I, as a non native speaker, find odd, is "iron". People just say it as "ion", dropping the 'r', right?? At least that's what I hear.
- jdminhbg 5y agoThe 'r' and 'o' are transposed: it's pronounced 'iorn.'
- brabel 5y agoAccording to this[1], that's only in the USA... British English appears to drop the 'r' entirely (that's why I never hear it as I've lived in Europe and Australia)... and the American pronounciation seems so odd, is there any other word where the 'r' and the vowel are swapped like that? I know only one in British/Australian with "centre" being pronounced "center", but can't think of any others. [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/iron https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/iron
- CRConrad 5y ago> British English appears to drop the 'r' entirely Yeah, but the Brits make up for that by stuffing a lot of extraneous 'r's in between other words. (TBF, that's a kind of sensible simplification of pronunciation: it's used when one word ends and the next starts with a wovel, to ease the transition.)
- kyrra 5y agoI oddly discovered this as well (not something I thought about) when watching a playthrough video for a boardgame (Brass: Birmingham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzxf4tfq9as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzxf4tfq9as ). In there, he says "iron" as it should be said given the letters in the word. My wife and I are somewhat working to actually say the word that way now.