Acronym Glut

I have long been concerned by what I call Acronym Glut, which occurs when a large number of meanings accumulate around the same set of initials. The commonest example is PC - standing for Political Correctness, Personal Computer or Police Constable, depending on context. Every acronym coined represents a little bit of meaning lost from the language. The fact is that, outside of chemical nomenclature, most acronyms could be replaced by the words which they represent, without too great an outlay of energy or time on the part of the writer. The greatest problem with acronyms is not that they may be ambiguous, but that they have no meaning at all to the outsider. Thus (and particularly in government or other large organizations) they create a ring fence around the doings of an inner elite.
Just to illustrate, here (mainly from Wikipedia) are the possible meanings accruing to the acronym CIF which recently stopped me in my tracks.

• Canada India Foundation - Canadian lobbying organization
• Cost, Insurance and Freight - a sales contract term indicating that price includes cost, insurance and freight
• California Interscholastic Federation - the governing body for high school sports in California
• Caltech Intermediate Form - geometry language for VLSI design, in which the primitives are coloured rectangles (similar to GDSII)
• Chicago Improv Festival - a non-profit comedy festival held annually in Chicago
• Climate Investment Funds
• Coming into force
• Comment is Free (CiF), online comment section of The Guardian newspaper
• Comme il Faut (CiF), brand of tango shoes, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Community Infrastructure Fund (CIF), a method of UK government funding for transport infrastructure
• Crystallographic Information File, a standard text file format for representing crystallographic information promulgated by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) - and the closely related Crystallographic Information Framework
• Customer Information File, any electronic file containing Customer Information, to include data bases and file exchanges
• "Código de Identificación Fiscal", an acronym for Taxpayer Identification Code in Spain, the identification document of legal persons in Spain
• Common Intermediate Format (CIF also FCIF) - Common Intermediate Format or Full Common Intermediate Format, is a format used to standardize the horizontal and vertical resolutions in pixels of YCbCr sequences in video signals, commonly used in video teleconferencing systems.
• Cumulative incidence function - in epidemiology statistics, an expression of the probability of disease up to a given time
• Come In Face (Pornographic).

Ridiculous.