But both those things are Monads. They follow the Monad laws, the conform to a certain Monad interface, they both have bind and return, they behave like Monads.

But both those things are Monads. They follow the Monad laws, the conform to a certain Monad interface, they both have bind and return, they behave like Monads. To me the problem with using "pattern" is that it suggests a relationship when there's none, other than all of them being techniques that were presented in the same book. Prematurely naming them also prevented other people from finding better names. For example, other techniques that are in the same idea-space, such as "Inversion of Control" and "Dependency Injection" don't need the "pattern" suffix, for example, but are still understandable.