On 2006-10-11, mensanator at aol.com <mensanator at aol.com> wrote:
>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2006-10-11, mensanator at aol.com <mensanator at aol.com> wrote:
>>>> >> Like Alanis Morisette said about the song "Isn't it Ironic":
>> >> What's ironic about the song is that it doesn't actually
>> >> contain any irony.
>> >
>> > Any? Don't people plan June weddings thinking the weather
>> > will be nice? And isn't one of the defintions of irony when
>> > things turn out the opposite of what you expect?
>>>> Not really, no.
>> American Heritage Dictionary:
> irony: 4. Incongruity between what might be expected to happen
> and what actually occurs.
Yup, you're right. That seems to be a usage frowned upon by
old-school types, but it appears to have become common enough
that it's made it into dictionaries.
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