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Regular verbs ending in voiced sounds are pronounced with...

A father earns the gratitude of his children by nurturing them to be preeminent in the Assembly of the Learned.


Thirukural, verse 67, circa 100 A.D. in: KUMARAVADIVELU, B. 2003.


Regular verbs ending in voiced sounds are pronounced with the sound /d/ in the simple past and past perfect, and so are most adjectives with the same form. However, the word “Learned”, present in the quotation above, has a distinctive pronunciation feature when functioning as an adjective or a noun: /'Ia:nid/. Among the words below, choose the one that follows the same characteristic of pronunciation when used in such functions.


A

amused.


B

boiled.


C

beloved.


D

canned.


E

dazed.