It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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The issue is acronyms; there’s millions of products, schematics, datasheets, and manuals that refer to them as MISO and MOSI with no further explanation. Any new standard that doesn’t fit runs into the 15-competing-standards problem, and ought to be followed by an “AKA MISO” every time it’s used.

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Just have to find synonyms that begin with the same letters, possibly in different languages.

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Other countries all use the English terms.
Except for the French, probably.

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I was thinking of synonyms in different languages, like magister and scholasticus, which are teacher and student in latin.

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I’ve seen “Main” and “Secondary” be used exactly for this reason, as they keep the same first letter so don’t require acronyms to be changed.

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I’ve seen “Main” and “Support” be used likely for the same reason

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