Pronunciation of the English word ironic.
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1. | "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is quite a long word, isn't it?" "Yes, but do you know what it means?" "Actually, I don't." "It means fear of long words." "How ironic." | |
2. | In a cruelly ironic twist of fate, someday Tatoeba will make an example of us all. | |
3. | Imogen of the Internet, in spite of her American nationality, opened a Mixi account just to show off her ironic purikura album. | |
4. | Ironic, isn't it? | |
5. | It is ironic that one of the most colonialist countries of all times accuses Buenos Aires of being colonialist! | |
6. | It's ironic that one of the most colonialist countries of all times accuses Buenos Aires of colonialism! | |
7. | French poet, Alcanter de Brahm, proposed the irony mark (؟) towards the end of the 19th century to indicate a sentence which should be understood as ironic or sarcastic. | |
8. | When people use the word "ironic", they may mean "comically incongruous". | |
9. | It was ironic. | |
10. | I was being ironic. |