John -  (01)
On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:38 AM, John Bottoms wrote:  (02)
> David Eddy maintains a list of "common" usage terms for computing,
> such as ZIP, SS#, employeeID, for computing and it contains a
> brazillion entries.  (03) 
Since you present it that way, as an exercise in trying to grasp the 
challenge, I built a prototype "dictionary" in 2006. It largely 
contains acronyms, but the line between an acronym & a word does get 
fuzzy. For certain I personally do not make much of a distinction 
between an acronym & a word.  (04)
I collected 2,000 terms with 68,000 meanings before the guys with the 
white coats showed up.  (05)
The "winner" in 2006 was "cc" with 298 meanings. Today that tally is 
holding at 421 meanings. Ouch.  (06)
(as of 2006)
SS = 247
ID = 70  (07)
Something of a disambiguation challenge.  (08)
I believe George Miller's "Ambiguous Words" (http:// 
www.kurzweilai.net/ambiguous-words) uses 10 as the "average" number 
of meanings for a word. Clearly my dictionary blows that totally out 
of the water.  (09)
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