>>It does not matter if one habitually uses Persons or People to describe a set or people. It's only important to recognize that we're talking about a set. A singular set should be named. So, is a set containing people to be called a PersonSet or a PeopleSet? ;)
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>Mike,
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>I am glad that you brought up the word Set, since it is so clearly defined. It only has 464 meanings. :-)
http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/blmosdef.htmBut there's context! And it consists of two or three other words which have only about 12 meanings each, so it's easy to discard the wrong possible combined meanings within a microjiffy.