>should I be feeling consternation that Ms. DiBattista's sentiments essentially went without challenge from her fellow UK'rs?

No, it's half term here, too busy sailing (and now doing the laundry/homework/chauffeuring as well as catching up on work to worry about such things. It's a free world, she can say what she likes.

I think we are still involved in coining words, apart from slang, most words seem to come from new technology and management gobbledeygook which is pretty international. Perhaps we like to use the words we've got, rather create new, unnecessary words, dunno, all I need right now is more sleep .. yawn ... yawn ... sorry not to have anything more to say at the moment, I need recharging.