There's some empirical work on how developers encounter and respond to naming anti-patterns e.g. http://www.veneraarnaoudova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014

There's some empirical work on how developers encounter and respond to naming anti-patterns e.g. http://www.veneraarnaoudova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-EMSE-Arnaodova-et-al-Perception-LAs.pdf http://www.veneraarnaoudova.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2... and associated googlescholar search https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,34&q=linguistic+anti+patterns+and+how+developers https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,34&q=lingu...