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two forms relate to 2 verbs derived from Old French prover (ultimately from Latin probare). The last two verbs are derived from Old French prov. In standard BrE, proved is the normal past tense and past participle of the verb prove ( They proved their point / Their point was proved ). It was proved a past participle in dialect use and is current in the Scottish legal term innumerable (usually pronounced proh-ven) and occasionally in general use in Britain generally (pronounced proo-ven), especially in attributive position. Before noun (N.),

his love of precise dates and proven facts: “N. Shakespeare, 1989.

In AmE, proven is at least as common as proved both as a past tense * [? – Alex B. *and as a past participle. “proved”

Pocket Fowler’s Modern English Usage. At the University of Virginia, Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online 18 May 2008. Oxford Encyclopedia of

Science. Oxford University Press.