I don't think I have ever heard someone say xor. If discussed, IIRC they say 'exclusive or'. Not that it is a common discussion.
Such a useful instruction. Exchange a register with a memory location XOR A,B XOR B,A XOR A,B. Or two buffers at location A and B, move the pointer between them. First Mask = XOR A,B. start with pointer=A, To flip Pointer=Pointer XOR Mask. Useful for a string of compare equal on processors that don't have a compare (e.g PIC 8-bit) using Z for result but not disturbing C (add or subtract works too, but unnecessarily alters C in the process). Out of curiosity, I looked at the last program I wrote. More than 50 XORs.
A rose by any (other) name is just as sweet.