@ibstubro, what, you think I’m a purist? I might have been when I began my editing career, but after fifteen or so years I had gained the confidence of my own authority and understood something about the rules and what it means to break them. My readings in linguistics and other subjects helped too.
I came along too late to be formally exposed to the “new” grammar, but I can see plainly that some rules are inherent in the forms and structures and sense of the language and some are arbitrarily imposed; for instance, those that are modeled on the rules of Latin grammar where there is no direct English counterpart. For the next fifteen years (and beyond), I allowed split infinitives where those were the best constructions, rather than forcing convoluted workarounds that impaired the author’s voice.
What’s with tthe apostrophe in “yous”?