En réponse à Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Troll: what does "ISO" stand for?
>
> International Organization for Standardization, no matter where in the
> world you are. Why do English acrynoms switch around like that? `Order
> of
> Australia' becomes `AO' (although `Order of the British Empire' remains
> as
> `OBE'...). But there is a huge bunch of them that do that and it isn't
> French's fault because I understand it'd have to be SOI or similar in
> French (a language I don't know so I could be wrong).
>
In French it would be OIS: Organisation Internationale de Standardisation. But
we use the symbol "ISO". I guess the reason why the order was twisted is that
it looked then like the Greek root for "same".
Christophe.
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