- Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:01 pm
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I’m sure Rushour is right and the new 350 will be a big seller. And other versions – beside the feet-forward style – will widen its appeal.
On another point – and here I won’t be proved (!) wrong, because I write as a Brit (not an American, or I might write ‘I won’t be proven wrong’). Both forms conform to regular usage and whichever is preferred is nothing to get excited about. To quote an authority: ‘For example, where a British writer is likely to write I have proved you wrong, an American writer might write I have proven you wrong’. But I may be proven wrong over this.

On another point – and here I won’t be proved (!) wrong, because I write as a Brit (not an American, or I might write ‘I won’t be proven wrong’). Both forms conform to regular usage and whichever is preferred is nothing to get excited about. To quote an authority: ‘For example, where a British writer is likely to write I have proved you wrong, an American writer might write I have proven you wrong’. But I may be proven wrong over this.