I kinda feel this way about variable names in physics. You could call the (x,y,z) components of the magnetic field (L,M,N), see [0]. There are so many people who call that utterly wrong, but really it's totally fine and merely a source of confusion.

[0] page 907: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/andp.190532...