As a (barely) recovery grammar festidian I highly recommend checking out this video by Dr Geoff Lindsey [1]

TLDW: some fascinating realignment of perspective from a linguist about such things [^2], and the - frankly moderately mind-blowing - revelation that despite caring about language I've been gleefully pronouncing "covert" 'wrong' my whole life (and will likely continue to do so)

[1]: https://youtu.be/I6duEGj04Mg

[^2]: edit for clarity: such things being the concept of "normal forms" or rules in language.