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What is the difference between What irony! and How irony! ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between What irony! and How irony! ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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6 Mar 2017
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It should be "what an irony!" and "how ironic!"
They mean the same thing just that one is used in the context of what and the other one in the context of how.
The school teaches its students not to litter but the school management did not stop its contractor from dumping chemical waste down the drain.
What an irony! / How ironic!
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It should be "what an irony!" and "how ironic!"
They mean the same thing just that one is used in the context of what and the other one in the context of how.
The school teaches its students not to litter but the school management did not stop its contractor from dumping chemical waste down the drain.
What an irony! / How ironic!
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"How irony that is" is not correct.
The best expression to use is "How ironic."
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@Gejemica that is very right!
It should be how ironic!
My bad. I don't know what I was thinking.
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