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Thread #168377   Message #4068051
Posted By: Jos
11-Aug-20 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: English as taught in Nordic countries
Subject: RE: BS: English as taught in Nordic countries
Like 'gotten' there is also 'proven'. For example, where I would say that something has proved useful, people in North America or Scotland, and maybe Ireland, might say that it has proven useful.
I would use 'proven' as an adjective, for example when describing something as 'a proven remedy'. There, 'a proved remedy' would be clearly wrong.

And then there is the Scottish legal verdict: Not proven.
This was described to me as meaning 'We know you did it but we can't prove it.'