Language, in general, and physics, in particular, are constantly evolving. When new phenomena are discovered or known phenomena are made accessible to mathematical description, appropriate names are sought to communicate quickly about the phenomenon. Geometric terms such as point, line, or direction are associated with force, time, or motion. Often the first choice of name is not always a happy one, and the names are sometimes replaced only years later by more suitable ones, or they are given the names of people who have distinguished themselves in the field concerned by special achievements in gaining knowledge. Recent examples from continuum mechanics are described below. The text deals with the misleading and changing use of the term deformation, the ambiguity of gradient and divergence, the misleading delimitation of different stress tensors, and definitions of the Gibbs energy of solids.