There, there 'puss.

There's nowt wrong wi' dialect. I use it missen. But this is an international forum so we shouldn't overuse it. Or maybe we should explain it when we do use it.

You're dead right about split infinitives and other 'inventions', though. These are not wrong, and never were. I used to have to teach effective writing and it was very difficult to get people to believe that it was OK to split an infinitive. Or use a a conjunction to start a sentence with. (That should have got a few people going, I hope)

'Current usage' allows split infinitives and the other things that language pedants rail against - you can point to any current book on effective writing and show them chapter and verse.

By the way - you missed a couple of apostrophes out.**BG**