2021-04-17
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – allege & accused & suspected
แนะนำการใช้ ตามที่ส่วนใหญ่ใช้ แต่ละท้องถิ่น
ความหมาย อาจผันแปร ตาม ตำแหน่ง/หน้าที่ ในประโยค
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ออกเสียง allege = ‘uh-DEJD’ or ‘uh-LEJ-id’
ออกเสียง accused = ‘uh-KYOOZD’
ออกเสียง suspected – verb = ‘suh-PEKT’ – noun = ‘SUHS-pekt’
For adjective – suspected ออกเสียง เน้นได้ ทั้ง พยางค์ แรก หรือ หลัง.
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VOCAB BUILDER
What does alleged mean?
Alleged
is an adjective that’s used
to describethings that have been claimed.
It’s most often used to describe an actionor situation,
especiallya wrongdoing or crime,
that someone claims happened
but that has not been confirmed or proven.
Alleged can also be used as the past tense of the verb allege,
meaning to claim without proof or before proof is available.
Such an accusationis called an allegation.
The adverb form of alleged is allegedly.
allegeAs an adjective,
alleged can be correctly pronounced
either uh-LEJD or uh-LEJ-id.
When it’s used as a verb, it’s alwayspronounced uh-LEJD.
Alleged is most commonly used in a legal context
and in journalism in reports about crimeor other wrongdoing
before it has been provenor before someone has been convicted.
Using the word alleged allowsjournalists
to talk about allegations without seeming to presume guilt
(and getting sued for libel).
Sometimes,
alleged is used to mean doubtful or supposed
in a way that’s intended to indicate skepticism about something,
as in The alleged genius can’t even run a small company.
Example:
The alleged crime took place when my client was half a state away.
Where does alleged come from?
The first records of the word alleged come from the 1400s.
Its base word, allege, is recorded around 1300
and ultimately comes from the Latin verb allēgāre,
meaning “to dispatchon a mission” or “bring forward as evidence.”
The leg part of allege and alleged comes from the root lēx-,
which means “law” and formsthe basis of words like legal.
Alleged is almost always used in a legal context.
It’s typically used when making an accusation that has yet to be proved
in a court of law.
In many jurisdictions,
the law states that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
That meansthat if someone is accused of committing a crime
—even if the whole thing was caughton video
—they’re not considered guilty until they’re convicted by a jury.
Until that happens,
journalists use the word alleged to qualify
descriptions about the supposed crime.
It’s often applied to actions or events,
as in the alleged burglary or the alleged incident.
It can also be applied to a person, as in the alleged burglar.
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VOCAB BUILDER
What does accused mean?
Accused is an adjective that means charged with a crime or other offense.
Accused is also used as a noun
to refer to a person or people
who have been charged witha crime, often as the accused.
To accuse someone of something
means to say thatthey are guilty of it.
This can happen in everyday situations,
such as children accusing each other of not sharing.
But accused is most used in the context of the criminal justice system
to indicate that a person has been officially charged with a crime.
Example: The accused was escorted in the courtroom by police.
Where did accused comefrom?
The verb accuse has been in use since at least the 1300s.
It comes from the Latin accūsāre, meaning “to call to account.”
As an adjective and noun, accused is recorded later, around the 1500s.
Because accused is closely linked to crimes and rule violations,
it has been used in legal documents, lawtexts,
and accounts of criminal trials or court cases for centuries.
It is important to remember that
accused, likesimilar words such as charged and indicted,
doesn’t indicatethat the person is guilty of the crime
they are suspected of committing.
An accused person has simply been charged with the crime.
In modern times, their guilt usually needs to be proven.
Of course, accused personsin previous eras (such as accused witches)
had much less hope of a fair trial,
and the very accusation of guilt sometimes sealed their fate.
Still today, accusing someone of a crime is a serious thing to do.
Even if they are not found guilty,
having been accused may permanently hurt their reputation.
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ABOUT THIS WORD
What does sus mean?
Sus is a shortening of suspicious or suspect.
In slang, it has the sense of “questionable” or “shady.”
Where does sus come from?
In England and Wales,
sus appearsin sus law,
a name for a stop-and-search law
that allowed the police to arrest suspected persons
if they appear in violation of the Vagrancy Act of 1824.
The British shortening dates back to the 1950s,
with earlier abbreviations of sus for suspicion
in other contexts reaching into the 1930s (and related to suss out).
Black and ethnic minority groups
felt especially targetedby sus laws
in the 1970s–80s and
ran a successful campaign called Scrap Sus.
The law was indeed scrapped in 1981.
Across the pond, (means in the US continent)
sus is short of suspicious,
extended to people’s behavior, beliefs,
or other things deemed “shady” or “sketchy” in some way.
Perhaps a shortening independent
from the British English slang,
sus spreads online in Black and internet slang in the early 2000s,
entered on Urban Dictionary as early as 2003.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Suspect
suspect, adjective: not able to be trusted:
causing feelings of doubt or suspicion
—NOT having feelings of suspicion; suspicious
Although your colleague denies any wrongdoing,
you're 90% sure she took the last doughnut from the office doughnut box
and just left the empty box to taunt those who were too late.
It's okay, you can have feelings of doubt about her denials,
and you can regard her with suspicion.
Just don't say you're suspect.
You're not; you're suspicious.
She's the one who's suspect—that is, suspected by you.
Dictionary of Problem Words in English
allege& accused& suspected
Each of these words is used
to refer to persons involved in legal problems.
To allege means “to statepositively,” “to assert without proof,”
or “to urge as an excuse or reason.”
To accuse is “to chargesomeone with an error or crime.”
To suspect means “to imagine,” “to think guilty without proof of guilt.”
Newspaper and broadcast news programs often publish stories about an
allege swindler, an accused burglar, or a suspected arsonist.
These terms are used as a possible hedge against being sued for libel,
but their use in such instances is both debatable and doubtful.
One cannot allege a swindler but rather a condition or a crime.
An accused burglar is not a burglar who has been accused
but a person who has been accused as a burglar.
Even so, individuals need the protection
such words attempt to provideas a defense against charge of slander,
just as newspaper and radio and television stations do against suits for libel.
For this purpose, alleged is preferable to either accused or suspected.
