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On Fri, 1 Mar 2024, Douglas McIlroy wrote:

> One might argue that replacing "flag" by "option", thus doubling the number
> of syllables, was a small step in that direction. In fact it was a
> deliberate attempt to discard jargon in favor of normal English usage.

I prolly got the term "switch" from IBM/Microsoft, but that's the term I'm 
used to (and my own implementations of Unix utilities do use the term in 
their error messages).

-uso.