[userbinator]

I personally don't find the terminology has much significance; it wouldn't matter if it was named "the", "this", "it", "my", or "object", it all refers to "the object instance upon which this method is invoked".

Maybe it's just because I'm familiar with C where the equivalent of a "this" reference often has a different name depending on the "class", e.g. "struct Window * w" or "struct Button * b".