To all persons with a proven interest in usage and grammar

Here are a few more of my favorites:

People / Persons:

The traditional distinction—now a pedantic one—is that people is general, persons specific. Thus, one would refer to 300 people who had assembled but to the twelve persons on the jury. Persons has been considered better for small, specific numbers. But twelve persons on the jury seems stuffy to many readers, and most native speakers of AmE would say twelve people on the jury. In contexts like that one, people has long been used and is the more natural phrasing. The NYT and AP recommend using people over persons except in quotations and in set phrases, e.g., third persons or Missing Persons Bureau.

Proved / proven:

Proved has long been the preferred past participle of prove. But proven often ill-advisedly appears In AmE, proven, like stricken, properly exists only as an adjective . One accepted use of proven as a past participle is the legal phrase, “innocent until proven guilty.”