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October 21, 2009 3:59 am
"Disambiguation" is mouthful. It's much-beloved by Wikipedia, and sounds like something recently coined, but not so! I started wondering during the morning drive, and looked it up.
Some dictionaries date it to 1963, but the OED pushes it back to 1827. I wonder if it fell out of use and was resurrected in the 1960's?
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October 21, 2009 6:00 am
It is a very common term in legal parlance. A statute or ordinance that is written in such a way as to yield more than one possible interpretation may be in need of disambiguation.