I've noticed that the pronunciations of "picked" gives its sound like "pick" with final sound "d" but for "Crooked" and "Naked" Why do they pronounce them like "Crook-ked" and "Nake-ked"?   How can I know when i must pronounce the word like "picked" and when I must pronounce the word like "Crooked"?
There are three ways I know to pronounce the -ed at the end of an adjective:   /t/ as in cracked. /d/ as in lined. /ɪd/ as in naked   I realise naked is a special case because, as , it comes for Old English nacod, so the suffix isn't added.   shows the pattern of pronunciation of -ed in all other cases. However it doesn't explain why  ends with /ɪd/ (or /id/ or /əd/ depending on the dialect).   that wicked comes from OE wicca, so the d wasn't already there.  Why do we pronounce wicked as /ˈwɪkɪd/ and not /ˈwɪkt/?
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