"Bit of thread drift but I really couldn't let that one pass."
Can't disagree with you in general terms L - but I think that we have to have a quorum for a word to be added to our vocabulary and not what tends to happen in these discussions - "Now let's see what the old E.B says - nope - that one doesn't suit, so I'll make up my own".
That's when we start conversing with talking horses and not to each other.
The language we use must carry with it a degree of consensus, otherwise everything we read and write would have to carry its own glossary
Jim Carroll