My CS professor (~ola) taught it as "gets" and to this day when I talk out code people get confused. I'll say, "x gets 3" and they look at me funny. But I find it helpful for differing between assignment and equality.

I never liked the 'gets':

"x gets 7" is fine but

"x becomes the same as y" seems better than "x gets y"

that's wrong, though. x becomes a copy of y, which is only transiently the same.

What is "transiently the same"?

Genuinely asking - my first thoughts are:

"transiently the same" is not the same as "the same", hence it is not "the same", and therefore "not the same".

No jokes on the meta-level please :o)

Depends on the language, and the types of x and y. See e.g. python.