Irony

[George Thompson]

> A historian I am reading remarks of a British attack on Louisbourg
> (Nova Scotia) during the Seven Year's War that "On D-Day, ironically
> June 6, three divisions of invaders made their way toward three
> landing beaches ..."
>
> How can a date in 1758 be an "ironic" choice when the date that is
> commonly associated with the name "D-Day" was nearly two centuries later?
>
> Joel

Since the current meaning of irony/ironic is "marked by a slightly amusing trivial coincidence", as I noted earlier this month, then the fact that an incident in the Seven Year's War took place on June 6 can be ironic.

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net>
Date: Monday, June 21, 2010 9:04 pm
Subject: Irony
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> A historian I am reading remarks of a British attack on Louisbourg
> (Nova Scotia) during the Seven Year's War that "On D-Day, ironically
> June 6, three divisions of invaders made their way toward three
> landing beaches ..."
>
> How can a date in 1758 be an "ironic" choice when the date that is
> commonly associated with the name "D-Day" was nearly two centuries later?
>
> Joel
>
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