Some people believe that when preparing programs that are broadcast on radio or television, special people carefully examine the text presented in it for the presence of speech, stylistic and spelling errors. However, when watching news or movies about the adventures of police officers, you can hear an interesting word, the exact stress of which is not always clear. Because the heroes or correspondents often pronounce it strangely: either convicted, or convicted (with emphasis on either the second syllable or the third.)
For this reason, people watching these programs have a lot of questions regarding the meaning of an unfamiliar word, the correct statement of stress in it, as well as many other aspects.
It is for them that this article was written. In it, we examine in detail the meaning, origin, spelling, singularity of the accent, and the presence of synonyms for the word "convicted".
Meaning of the word
According to the Russian-language explanatory dictionaries (where, by the way, you can see the correct accent in the word), a convict is a person who, as a result of a court decision, was convicted of a crime of varying severity.
This is proved by the morphemic analysis of the word (analysis of the constituent parts - morphemes): “convicted” - prefix “o”, root “judgment”, suffix “en” (or “en”, if the convicted, consider the correct stress later), ending “ ".
Etymology of the word
Etymology, or, to put it more simply, the history of origin, is necessary in the study of any word in order to understand why an object is named that way, and not otherwise. That is, why, for example, a ship is sometimes called a ship, what does ware have to do with a swimming craft?
Thus, the etymological dictionary of the Russian language will help to understand how the word “convicted” happened. From it we learn that this word was formed in a suffix way from the verb "condemn". Which implies an expression of disapproval.
Since the letter “a” is pronounced with greater force in the verb, it can be assumed that in the studied word “convicted” the stress is also given to the vowel also following the letter “d”.
Spelling of the word
To find out the correct spelling of the word studied in the article, it is necessary to submit its transcription. That is the literal formula of its pronunciation. For the word “convicted” it can look like this: either [convicted] or [convicted], depending on which letter of the word is stressed.
Thus, an error in a word is possible in two cases. In the prefix of the word and the suffix. To find out the correct spelling of the part is very simple. Since the prefix “a” is not in the Russian language, the letter “o” should be printed at the beginning of the word “convicted”.
The following rule will help to check the vowel in the suffix part of the word: if in the word after the soft consonant (in this case [d ']) one of such sounds is heard: [o, e, y, a], it is necessary to write the letter “a” , “E”, “y” or “e”.
When pronouncing the word “convicted”, the accent “floats”, so it’s hard to say exactly which vowel in the word is “e” or “e”. But this is easy to figure out in the next paragraph.
How to pronounce this word?
So, if you look into one of the modern explanatory, spelling, etymological dictionaries, it becomes clear that the word studied in this article, competent people pronounce with emphasis on the third syllable. That is, the correct stress in the word is condemned. ” Accordingly, the letter “e” should be written in the suffix of the word, and not “e”.
Why do many people distort the word, pronouncing with emphasis on the second syllable? It is not known exactly, but those who are really interested in this issue can listen to the speeches of law enforcement officials. As a result, they will understand that only these citizens pronounce the word “convicted” incorrectly, thereby knocking down other citizens.
It is possible that the concept of “convicted” among the representatives of the law is inextricably linked with the court. And it is for this reason that they constantly say "Condemned."
The presence of synonyms for the word
So, we have analyzed in detail the unpronounceable word. And they found out that people who want to be literate and educated should use the word "convicted" in their speech with the correct stress, which falls on the third syllable. As a result of this, the word studied in this article sounds like “convict”, with emphasis on the letter “e”.
However, if nevertheless the material described above somehow disappears from our heads, our readers will boldly replace the word “convicted” with other, similar in meaning, words that are called synonyms in Russian. For example, such as the following: sentenced, doomed, damned, accused, branded. Or the following phrases: convicted; sentenced to punishment; the person whose guilt is proven.
Thus, our readers know what the word being studied means and how it is spelled correctly. And also that faithful accent is condemned.