Reminded of a tweet from Gwern:
Connotations: ‘thrift’ is achieving one’s goals as cost-effectively as possible and maximizing one’s bang-for-buck; ‘frugality’ is choosing one’s goals to be as cost-effective as possible, and picking a bang which minimizes one’s buck. The former is a virtue; the latter, a vice.
Both “transistor” (transconductance and varistor) and “bit” (binary digit) come to mind as new technical words.
Quoting from Jon Gertner’s The Idea Factory.
(Further examples of bad naming conventions: https://willcrichton.net/notes/naming-conventions-that-need-to-die/)