"Alan Meyer" <ameyer2_at_yahoo.com> writes:
> "Alan Browne" <alan.browne_at_FreeLunchVideotron.ca> wrote in message
> news:tYIYc.44206$h56.889713_at_wagner.videotron.net...
>
> > There is no such organization as "International Standards
> > Organization"
> >
> > There *is* the "International Organization for Standardization" /
> > "Organisation internationale de normalisation" whose name is
> > "ISO" after the Greek "equal".
>
> That is a fascinating tidbit of information.
>
> I have seen "International Standards Organization" used by
> people I took to be very knowledgeable. I assumed it was
> either accurate, or at least an accurate English translation
> of a French name (which is still possibly true). I had never
> heard about the Greek "equal".
>
> I learn a lot of wonderful arcana on this newsgroup.
Also as a member of the original ANSI/ISO C standards committee (X3J11 when it
was an ANSI committee), I learned there that for the 3 offical languages of ISO
(English, French, and Russian), that the standards organization specifically is
not an acronym of ISO (hence International Organization for Standardization,
instead of the simpler International Standards Organization), since if it were
an acronym in English but not in French, it might imply some superiority of
English to French.
--
Michael Meissner
email: mrmnews_at_the-meissners.org
http://www.the-meissners.org
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