diff -u b/core/modules/views_ui/js/views-admin.js b/core/modules/views_ui/js/views-admin.js
--- b/core/modules/views_ui/js/views-admin.js
+++ b/core/modules/views_ui/js/views-admin.js
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
         // After an AJAX response, this.fieldsFiller will still have event
         // handlers bound to the old version of the form fields (which don't exist
         // anymore). The event handlers need to be unbound and then rebound to the
-        // new markup. Note that $.live is difficult to make work in this
+        // new markup. Note that jQuery.live is difficult to make work in this
         // case because the IDs of the form fields change on every AJAX response.
         this.fieldsFiller.rebind($fields);
       }
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
  * Prepopulates a form field based on the view name.
  *
  * @param $target
- *   A $ object representing the form field to prepopulate.
+ *   A jQuery object representing the form field to prepopulate.
  * @param exclude
  *   Optional. A regular expression representing characters to exclude from the
  *   target field.
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 
   // Create bound versions of this instance's object methods to use as event
   // handlers. This will let us easily unbind those specific handlers later on.
-  // NOTE: $.proxy will not work for this because it assumes we want only
+  // NOTE: jQuery.proxy will not work for this because it assumes we want only
   // one bound version of an object method, whereas we need one version per
   // object instance.
   var self = this;
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
       options[i] = {
         // Search on the lowercase version of the label text + description.
         'searchText': $label.text().toLowerCase() + " " + $description.text().toLowerCase(),
-        // Maintain a reference to the $ object for each row, so we don't
+        // Maintain a reference to the jQuery object for each row, so we don't
         // have to create a new object inside the performance-sensitive keyup
         // handler.
         '$div': $option