>Just calling everything a "variable" seems imprecise.

That's what they are, though, it is as precise as it needs to be. Why try to reinvent the wheel?

Can't/shouldn't change an entire industry's vocabulary to help out some entry level programmers, who, if they took a little bit longer, would grasp the concept.

If anything, this is placing more emphasis on people with a more formal grasp on language. As a layman, I never thought this hard about pronouns, just associated them with the most common ones and didn't think more about it.

Local means close to, global means everywhere. Give a couple of code examples and I think we're cooking with gas.

Honestly I understand the scope think a lot better. I still have no real mental model of what a pronoun is. Didn't even know what one was until my daughter mentioned the term during her first year in school

Programming is hard to grasp for some people. Local scope is the least of their worries and is altogether not that hard to understand. The County::State::City analogy where every item is a Place is an easy introduction to the concept.