Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · Dec 3 also from the OED:
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So it isn't just my subconscious justifying a back-formation! And evidently, diven was never a past participle form of dive, but it WAS the regular form in Middle English! Sorry for the photo of a monitor—what is this, the early 2010s?