What grammatical construction or use of a particular word do you have that you want to know is correct and proper?
I find myself often winging it with "themself/themselves" and it seems to be like themselves is always colloquially correct when there are multiple preceding nouns you're referring to...
Otherwise if there's only one antecedent or whatever, its themself
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People used to say “proven.” Like, it’s been proven. But now they say it’s been proved. When did this change?
Acc. to Merriam-Webster it's the opposite - "proved" used to be 4x more frequent than "proven" 50~60y ago, but nowadays they're equally common in all contexts.
In a more recent context, however, it's possible that this tendency is being reverted because "proven" is being treated as a participle (even if proscribed), and the distinction between participle and simple past is slowly going away. So it's possible that you're noticing a small part of a bigger shift here. (I'm just conjecturing though, this might be wrong; take it with a grain of salt.)