They should at least call it `print` for normal print and `prit` for the one without the n in it :P

I don't think a missing letter in such a short words is a common typo. It stands out.

You got eg. prin1 in Clisp which should be hard to distinguish in some fonts.

prin is an alternate spelling of preen. Okay so something about boldy wearing their feathers is a preen/to preen? Can anyone confirm? Does not help in guessing what ``prin "helloworld"'' does.

So I take it you hate all unix shell commands.

Why? These are two very common commands known by every programmer and used very often, why would having short mnemonics for them be confusing?