Thursday, 8 December 2011

Name and abbreviation

The three official languages of the ISO are English, French and Russian.3 The organization's logos in two of its official languages, English and French, accommodate the chat ISO, and it is usually referred to by this short-form name. The alignment says that ISO is not an acronym or abridgement for the organization's abounding name in either official language; rather, acquainted that its brand would be altered in altered languages, it adopted ISO, based on the Greek chat isos (ἴσος, acceptation equal), as the accepted abbreviate anatomy of its name.4 However, one of the founding delegates, Willy Kuert, recollected the aboriginal allotment catechism with the animadversion "I afresh apprehend that the name ISO was called because 'iso' is a Greek appellation acceptation 'equal'. There was no acknowledgment of that in London

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