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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rationalization

UK /ˌræʃ(ə)n(ə)laɪˈzeɪʃn̩/ · US /ˌræʃənəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ noun

Forms rationalizations rationalisation

  1. noun (now rare) The process or result of rationalizing, or expressing in rational terms. “Some rationalization of the language of his lectures is, of course, necessary.”
  2. noun A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event. “Her self-flagellating rationalization for the theft was mostly ignored by the jury.”
  3. noun (economics) The reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency through the reallocation of resources and changes in its workforce. “It began with the familiar political motives of civil service rationalization and downsizing.”
  4. noun (psychiatry) The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
  5. noun (mathematics) The simplification of an expression without changing its value. “Here, the rationalization of the denominator was unnecessary.”

Synonyms

rationale reasoning consolidation rationalisation systematization systematisation

Etymology

First attested in 1831. From French rationalisation, equivalent to rational + -ization or rationalize + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of rationalizing.

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