That’s a good find! So, in other words (if I understand this correctly), using the “ANY” noun fails, because all terps except ScottFree attempt to locate the noun in the vocabulary before actually executing actions using an “ANY” noun.
From your investigation, it sounds like this behavior is “canonical”, but I prefer the ScottFree behavior here too. I can’t think of any disadvantages to the ScottFree behavior, so I’ll look at altering the behavior in PerlScott (and related things) accordingly.