How do you pronounce ‘iron’?

[Askinvillarblues]

Off the back of the ‘do school shirts need ironing’ thread, I’m now musing about how weird it is that I don’t say the ‘r’ in iron. So it sounds like I-on in my (southern English) accent. If you have a rhotic accent eg Scottish and pronounce your ‘r’s in all words, how do you say iron?!

Sort of like 'i-yearn'.

Eye-un

That took far to much thinking for a Sunday evening 😅

I-yearn

Eyern

Eye en

Rhymes with lion and zion.

My Scottish friend at school (on the south coast) used to pronounce it “I Ron”, we had lots of discussions on accents etc.

Kinda like ire’n I suppose. Definite strong r in there (Irish accent).

I say it like eye-on, don't know if I'm right though.

ay-ahn

Dublin.

Eye ern

I urn

X posted with everybody. Yes, I say it the same as most posters!

I actually can't pronounce "iron". Or "Ireland" for that matter. Also southern English. It comes out a bit like a two syllable "ARN". My husband (with the same accent) likes to mock. Luckily I haven't done any arning in years.

I think phonetically it would be 'i-urrn'. I have a glaswegian accent.

Eye urn

eye-rn

Like Irn in Irn bru

I'm Scottish, I say it sort of like i-urn.

Eye-rin.

Eye urn

Is anyone else now sounding it out to themselves and it sounds weirder each time you do it? 🤣. So seems like apart from the Irish pp, for most people the ‘r’ is pronounced in the second syllable towards the end of the word and the ‘i’ is on its own. Wonder why?!

Eye-yun for me here in Yorkshire

Ire-n emphasis on the ire the nnnn just flows from it, so one syllable not two.

Eye-Urn for the thing you do to laundry.
But weirdly the metal id say eye-rin