Literary · Asked 24th March 2011 · 1,097 views Is it ironic that... the world 'tsunami' is Japanese for "harbor wave" The verdict 25% ironic 75% not 75% say this is NOT ironic · 4 votes Cast your vote How ironic is this on a scale of 0 to 10? 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Definitely ironic Not ironic at all Submit vote ← All examples Random example → Submit your own → More literary irony View all → Is it ironic that In a Clean, well-lighted place, one of the last lines is "He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. 57% ironic 7 votes Vote → Is it ironic that A company that makes lenses for glasses messed up an order by misreading the prescription? 78% ironic 16 votes Vote → Is it ironic that While arguing to defend that someone else is in fact "clever", that someone would misspell the word "they're" as "there". 61% ironic 7 votes Vote → Is it ironic that A man with the last name Shakespeare is completely illiterate? 65% ironic 11 votes Vote → Not sure what counts? Read our definition of irony, or learn the difference between situational irony and plain bad luck.