Interesting article - but it raises some questions for North Americans:

What the heck does this mean: "coal was routinely delivered to Buckingham Palace in sex"?

And it's fine to say, "In the 1950s she would have been lorst, but by the 1970s lost", but what is the pronunciation that a Brit gives to the spelling "lorst"? Don't bother trying to explain one that in (cyber) print ...