diff --git a/spec/unit/matrix-client.spec.ts b/spec/unit/matrix-client.spec.ts
index ce073aa7a..19c8f176c 100644
--- a/spec/unit/matrix-client.spec.ts
+++ b/spec/unit/matrix-client.spec.ts
@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ jest.mock("../../src/webrtc/call", () => ({
     supportsMatrixCall: jest.fn(() => false),
 }));
 
-// Utility function to ease the transition from our QueryDict type to a string record
-// which we can use to stringify with URLSearchParams
-function convertQueryDictToStringRecord(queryDict?: QueryDict): Map<string, string> {
+// Utility function to ease the transition from our QueryDict type to a Map
+// which we can use to build a URLSearchParams
+function convertQueryDictToMap(queryDict?: QueryDict): Map<string, string> {
     if (!queryDict) {
         return new Map();
     }
@@ -100,15 +100,15 @@ type WrappedRoom = Room & {
 
 describe("convertQueryDictToStringRecord", () => {
     it("returns an empty map when dict is undefined", () => {
-        expect(convertQueryDictToStringRecord(undefined)).toEqual(new Map());
+        expect(convertQueryDictToMap(undefined)).toEqual(new Map());
     });
 
     it("converts an empty QueryDict to an empty map", () => {
-        expect(convertQueryDictToStringRecord({})).toEqual(new Map());
+        expect(convertQueryDictToMap({})).toEqual(new Map());
     });
 
     it("converts a QueryDict of strings to the equivalent map", () => {
-        expect(convertQueryDictToStringRecord({ a: "b", c: "d" })).toEqual(
+        expect(convertQueryDictToMap({ a: "b", c: "d" })).toEqual(
             new Map([
                 ["a", "b"],
                 ["c", "d"],
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ describe("convertQueryDictToStringRecord", () => {
     });
 
     it("converts the values of the supplied QueryDict to strings", () => {
-        expect(convertQueryDictToStringRecord({ arr: ["b", "c"], num: 45, boo: true, und: undefined })).toEqual(
+        expect(convertQueryDictToMap({ arr: ["b", "c"], num: 45, boo: true, und: undefined })).toEqual(
             new Map([
                 ["arr", "b,c"],
                 ["num", "45"],
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ describe("convertQueryDictToStringRecord", () => {
     });
 
     it("produces sane URLSearchParams conversions", () => {
-        expect(new URLSearchParams(Array.from(convertQueryDictToStringRecord({ a: "b", c: "d" }))).toString()).toEqual(
+        expect(new URLSearchParams(Array.from(convertQueryDictToMap({ a: "b", c: "d" }))).toString()).toEqual(
             "a=b&c=d",
         );
     });
@@ -255,11 +255,11 @@ describe("MatrixClient", function () {
         }
 
         const receivedRequestQueryString = new URLSearchParams(
-            Array.from(convertQueryDictToStringRecord(queryParams)),
+            Array.from(convertQueryDictToMap(queryParams)),
         ).toString();
         const receivedRequestDebugString = `${method} ${prefix}${path}${receivedRequestQueryString}`;
         const expectedQueryString = new URLSearchParams(
-            Array.from(convertQueryDictToStringRecord(next.expectQueryParams)),
+            Array.from(convertQueryDictToMap(next.expectQueryParams)),
         ).toString();
         const expectedRequestDebugString = `${next.method} ${next.prefix ?? ""}${next.path}${expectedQueryString}`;
         // If you're seeing this then you forgot to handle at least 1 pending request.