# ...like a woman scorned \[pronounciation\]

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 18, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-woman-scorned-pronounciation/568119 "2011-01-18T20:55:06Z")\
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Does the fact that it was originally written as _turn’d_ and _scorn’d_ mean that the e in _turned_ and _scorned_ would originally have been pronounced, if written?

I know that old verse sometimes marks vowels with an accent, as in _turnèd_ to show that it should be pronounced, but was this once the standard pronunciation for\* -ed \*words?

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