The three official languages of the ISO are English, French, and Russian. As its name would have different abbreviations in different languages ("IOS" is English, "OIN" in French, etc.), the organization adopted "ISO" as its abbreviated name, derived from the Greek word isos (ἴσος, meaning equal).
Thursday 30 October 2014
Why International Organization for Standardization is abbreviated as ISO
The three official languages of the ISO are English, French, and Russian. As its name would have different abbreviations in different languages ("IOS" is English, "OIN" in French, etc.), the organization adopted "ISO" as its abbreviated name, derived from the Greek word isos (ἴσος, meaning equal).
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