There were a TON of arguments about mnemonics for host names in the early ARPANET days. There is a sarcastically titled 1973 post on a forum at Stanford Research Institute called "Gee Host Names and Numbers are Swell" by Jim White. I just transcribed it:

https://write.as/365-rfcs/gee-host-names-and-numbers-are-swell

I learned of this post via a citation in this wonderful paper by Steven Malcic, which talks about how early ARPANET mnemonic tables evolved into our modern DNS system over about 15 years.

https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/problem-future-users-how-constructing-dns-shaped-internet-governance