The r in irony is properly pronounced like the r in ironic, not like the r in iron.
In both British and American English, the sound [aɪ] for the first letter in ironic is followed by an [r].
The reason why the r in 'iron' is absent in British English is because the r is followed by a consonant now (followed by /n/ in /'aɪərn/) and British English is non-rhotic, meaning the r is only pronounced when followed by a vowel.
The word 'iron' looks simple and straightforward but actually there's a catch here. If we go by the spelling, we might think that it should be pronounced ay-ron. But actually there is no vowel between the R and the N. The pronunciation is ay-uhrn, or in IPA: [ˈaɪ.
The silent letter in the word "iron" is the "o".
#1 The Australian accent is non-rhotic
The Australian accent is for the most part non-rhotic. This means that the pronunciation of the /r/ sound will never occur at the end of words.
In American English we maintain a real R sound. In British English, they don't when it's at the end of a word. Water, -er, -er. It's a very closed sound.
If something is ironic it's unexpected, often in an amusing way. If you're the world chess champion, it would be pretty ironic if you lost a match to someone who just learned to play yesterday. Ironic is the adjective for the noun irony. In contemporary speech, when we call something ironic, we often mean sarcastic.
The letter R is not a nasal sound like the /ng/ sound in English, so don't stop the air from flowing through the mouth. The second option is to touch the tip of the tongue to the ridge of the palate where the roof of the mouth goes up behind the teeth. The rest of the tongue must stay low at the back of the mouth.
“Irony is to point out the absurdity of something. Sarcasm is meant to wound. That's the difference.”
The Australian accent is non-rhotic, unlike the American accent which is rhotic. Amy points out the following rules: You won't hear the /r/ in the middle of words unless it's followed by a vowel or vowel sound.
The thing you must do is leave your tongue tip forward at the beginning: aaiir. Then you can pull it back for the R. But if your tongue tip is pulled back from the beginning, it's just going to sound like er. Air, air.
British English is non-rhotic. The letter "r" is not pronounced after vowels, unless it is also followed by a vowel. The letter r can indicate a change in the quality of the vowel that precedes it.
Australian English can be described as a new dialect that developed as a result of contact between people who spoke different, mutually intelligible, varieties of English. The very early form of Australian English would have been first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the early colony in Sydney.
According to linguists, there are three main kinds of Aussie accent: broad (think former Prime Minister Bob Hawke), general (closer to Kevin Rudd) and cultivated (like Malcolm Fraser).
GH = silent e.g. LIGHT. GH = /f/ e.g. ENOUGH. GH = /g/ e.g. GHOST.
However, in spoken English, the number 0 is often read as the letter "o" ("oh"). For example, when dictating a telephone number, the series of digits "1070" may be spoken as "one zero seven zero" or as "one oh seven oh", even though the letter "O" on the telephone keypad in fact corresponds to the digit 6.
There are a few reasons why British people sometimes say R instead of A. One reason is that some words in British English end with an R sound, such as car and park. Another reason is that the letter R is often used to make a word sound more polite or formal.