different between tsuris vs tsoris

English

Borrowed from Yiddish ????? (tsores), plural of ???? (tsore, “trouble, problem”), from Hebrew ?????? (tsará, “trouble, tragedy, calamity”).

tsuris (uncountable)

(US, colloquial) Problems or troubles.
- 1968, Ronald Sukenick, Up, page 84, Dial Press
  You think you got troubles? You should go down there and talk to some of those schnorrers. Still, what chutzbah. It's like the Jewish moral sense, emerging from all that tsuris.
- 1997, Hilary Henkin and David Mamet, Wag the Dog, New Line Cinema
  Stanley Moss: I don't need this gig, I don't need the money, I don't need the tsuris ... I don't need it.

tsoris (uncountable)

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