Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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grievance

/ˈɡɹiː.vəns/ noun

Forms grievances grievaunce

  1. noun (countable) Something which causes grief.
  2. noun (countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
  3. noun (uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger.
  4. noun (countable) A complaint or annoyance.
  5. noun (countable, human resources) A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace. “If you want the problem fixed, you'll have to file a grievance with the city.”
  6. noun (uncountable) Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior.

Synonyms

hardship sorrow affliction aggrievance distress grief misery ruth sadness undelight vexation woe wrong bother annoyance faff hassle inconvenience irritation nuisance grudge score

Etymology

From Old French grievance, from the verb grever (“to irritate; to bother; to annoy”) + -ance, equivalent to grieve + -ance.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
  2. noun Grieving; grief; affliction.

Etymology [OF. grcvance. See Grieve, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “grievance”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details