Right, Pax ... that's the common opinion, that if the word "root" is different, then the Sacrament would be invalid.
I'm arguing for an even more lenient position, again, relying on the fact that the Church tends not to rely upon technicalities, as if things were magic spells, but common perception. If I used some water for Baptism that had a bunch of chemicals in it, as long as the general common-sense perception of it would be that it's what most people commonly refer to as "water".
Take break for instance. Sinc the 1940s, most bread has been genetically butchered and doesn't resemble what would have been in use during OurLord's time, the ancient grains, like Ferro, and Emmer, etc. Since they're genetically mutilated, would they be invalid matter? No, since the Church relies on common perception. Still looks like bread and has all the accidents whereby an average person could identify it as such.
Similarly, if I go to an episcopale consecration, there's a whole lot more there that tells you that it's a Catholic Rite of Episcopal Consecration, and specifically, taking the case of Bishop Webster's attempt to consecrate Father Pfeiffer. We all knew that he was saying the essential form, since otherwise, how would we know that he botched it. While being gravely incorrect, we knew what he meant by it and what he intended to be doing, pronouncing the words of the essential form. If it was so unrecognizable that we could not infer what he was doing, we'd not have been able to even say, "ah, that's invalid".
I'm referring to this as a material error regarding the pronounciation of the essential form ... distinguishing it from formal error, such as where the Rite itself was intentionally changed (Anglicans, Novus Ordo, etc.) or if some minister deliberately changes it (Novus Ordo "deacon" guy who said "We baptized ..." ... where he wasn't intending to do what the Church does, since he changed the Rite). But it's quite clear to the common sense of anyone watching that Webster was intending to consecrate Father Joseph Pfeiffer, or that Bishop Slupski was attempting to consecrate Father Paul Petko.
There's just part of me that feels like we might in fact be attempting to reduce the essential form to some magical incantation, where if you move the air with the exact correct syllables, that effects consecration. Really the intent of the essential form is just to make it clear what you're doing. I'm pouring water on someone's head. Why? Well, he had some dirt on his head, so I went to wash it off. You use the form to disambiguate the entire Rite and to explain to everyone so that it's clear what you're doing. I think that perhaps the Church supplies when it's clear objectively what the minister was attempting to do.
Again ... my personal speculative opinion, means nothing in the objective order, and so objectively remains in state of positive doubt, and my opinion and $7 might gert you a coffee at Starbucks, if it doesn't cost more than $7 with tax.
On another thread, I have also speculated that absolution of sins over the phone would be valid ... but won't digress into that here.
Basically, if the Church presumes it valid and considers it valid, then IMO it's valid, and God would accept that and provide a sanatio for any defect, based on the principle that what the Church binds on earth is bound in Heaven. So if the Church considers it valid and binds the faithful to consdier it valid, then it's valid, and God accepts it as valid and effects the grace associated with the Sacrament.
Otherwise, you'd have nothing but chaos. Yeah, yeah, they say "presume it to be valid". Well, I can presume all I want, if the +Lienart botched the Ordination of Archbishop Lefebvre ... my presumptions means nothing. Or does it? And that's where I hypothesize that the Church will supply and God accept as valid any Sacraments that the Church declares to be presumed valid. Now, of course, the Church's judgment has been that if you have evidence to the contrary, that presumption no longer prevails. But, then, what if we had gone 25 years before a video surfaced, like with those NO "priests"? That gets a bit more sticky.