It's the past participle form of "prove."
The only reason I can come up with is that Yahoo! is out to render us incapable of proper speech.
2006-08-14 03:59:18 · 4 answers · asked by mle_trogdor2000 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
yozora - I know that Americans do in fact use that word, but Yahoo! doesn't recognize it.
It's a conspiracy! I know it! *facecious*
2006-08-14 16:04:48 · update #1
It's in the dictionary so therefore it is a word. You can't argue with MR. WEBSTER!!!!
2006-08-14 04:20:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that's the reason at all. It's much more likely that the techie feeding the spell check like when it was first being created inadvertently omitted the word.
There are other oddities I've noticed. Like Yahoo provides us with blogs in our 360 but Yahoo spell check doesn't recognize the word blog.
Funny, huh?
2006-08-14 04:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Proven ...
You're right!!
How odd ... my British English spell-checker doesn't have a problem with it, so why does Yahoo's spell-checker?? Do they USE the word 'proven' in America or not??
2006-08-14 15:00:01 · answer #3 · answered by _ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When and where did they say "proven" is not a word?
2006-08-14 04:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by » mickdotcom « 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋