But as Mr. da Silva, now in his second term, sat down for a 75-minute interview here in the presidential palace, those worries hardly seemed to faze him.
"Er, well, I'm happy to push our game to young girls, women and everybody else who wants to listen, but I'm not sure how the term sits with me," she tells the Guardian.
Likewise, the term sat ("village") may have been borrowed from the Albanian language and not directly inherited.
They could serve two terms, sit one out and come back.
What is more, these recently introduced terms sit alongside a longstanding classification that employs separate terms to indicate ripeness levels.
A focus on networks, socialising, participation, finding support and promoting activity as a means of alleviating the mundaneness of living life with a long-term condition sat uneasily with the normal expectations of healthcare support and advice on offer.
I don't go to the gym or play any sports and to me the term "sit-up" was simply the posture I adopted to drink tea in bed.
Marseille finished second last term and sit in the same position after four matches of this one.
Still, the students walk days to the camps at the start of each term and sit in the sweltering heat for a chance to learn.
Bath finished 10th last season but they have taken just seven points from 18 games this term and sit nine points from safety.
The Reds finished second in the Premier League last term, but sit 10th in the table ahead of the Swans' trip to Anfield on Monday.
