Variable/method names standardizing

Hi All,
The problem we've got here is that same things are named in slightly different way by different developers or development groups.
Typical example:
'id' property. accessors could be named like: 'getID' or 'getId'.
Or even better example: term 'Work List' implementation of which has nothing to do with Java List. So, property could be named as 'worklist' or 'workList' with similar names for accessors.
I think, this problem is slightly outside of coding standards scope. And as project is very massive ~300000 lines of code, there are a lot of different terms named like in example above.
Has anyone come across such problem before?
I suspect, solution would be to keep a kind of variable/method names library.
Are there any better solutions?
Thanks in advance
Andrei

I think, this problem is slightly outside of coding
standards scope. It is, and I'm glad it is because the "people" who make the standards that we do have end up creating dumb, inconsistent stuff as it is. Better they don't get too granular.
Has anyone come across such problem before?Every day
I suspect, solution would be to keep a kind of
variable/method names library.
Are there any better solutions?How you name stuff is a matter of opinion. I personally don't care if you do someID or someId or even someid, what kills me is stuff like someid and someid. But again, it's all what you're used to.

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