How do you pronounce ISO??

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Do you say it as one word or say it letter by letter.

E.G:

eye-ess-oh (thanks Yv :D)

or eye-so (Thanks F-stop :D) ?

I say it as a word but my tutor at college says it letter by letter :shrug:

How do you pronounce it?
 
i know people that say eyesoh but i think the eye-ess-oh way sounds correct
 
Matt Sayle said:
Do you say it as one word or say it letter by letter.

E.G:

eye-ess-oh (thanks Yv :D)

or ISO ?

I say it as a word but my tutor at college says it letter by letter :shrug:

How do you pronounce it?
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Is this the person who grades your work? ;)
 
ISO isn't a word, so to be correct you say each letter.
 
Matt Sayle said:
:lol: Yup :D
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Doesn't make him correct, just gives him influence.

Academics are always years behind the real world. They have to study existing evidence, write their paper and get it approved before the thesis stands. So a period of time exists between examining the evidence and publishing the findings. In the meantime, the world has moved on. Mind you, don't float this past him or trouble might ensue. ;)
 
I say eye-so but I've only ever read it and have never heard anyone else say it. I really don't have any other photographer friends. :lol:
 
cyclone said:
ISO isn't a word, so to be correct you say each letter.
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what he said.


you remember the phonejacker sktech where he tried to buy a doovd player (dvd) for use with his lucadatuv (lcd tv).


although there are a number of abreviations we use as words, such as Bafta, but then saying B.A.F.T.A is as much of a gobful as saying british academy film and television arts!
 
i s o


come on matt :naughty: let us all know what it stands for..


maybe it will be clearer...:shrug:

md:thumbs:
 
chilliz said:
ISO = International Standards Organisation.

The actual standard is ISO 12232:2006.

Used to be ASA film ratings when I were a lad. :)
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My Dad still calls it ASA
 
DiddyDave said:
I S O - is how to say it, i s o is NOT right MD :nono:

Anyone remember DIN ???

:shrug:

DD
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Yep I know din, still used a lot today

A DIN connector is a connector that was originally standardized by the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), the German national standards organization.
 
cyclone said:
ISO isn't a word, so to be correct you say each letter.
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Nor was SCUBA, or LASER before their acronyms were created, so as "ISO" is pronouncable, technically it's an acronym, and can therefore be said or stated. (anything which cannot be pronounced is an initialisation, not an acronym)

Either way is good for me though, and I actually think I have used both...:thinking:
 
Well I actually do work for the ISO - not my full time job you understand but I'm one of those "experts" that puts together the standards that you know and love. As part of this work I attend ISO meetings at which staff from the ISO Secretariat are in attendance and everyone that I've ever encountered at such meetings pronounces it:

"EYESO"

So..................there you go.
 
It's an abbreviation, therefore eye-ess-oh
 
I say I say I say

eye ess ohh & eye so

does it really make a difference?
 
spam

and on the offchance it isnt, I S O
 
If I ever say ISO as a word, you have my permission to batter me senseless with a wet kipper.
Gawd, its like living with Americans....:shake:


definitely spam
 
Does it really matter...........:shrug:

FTR I say Eye ess o...........:)
 
Generally people will pronouce abbreviations with the least amount of syllables.

I-S-O is 3

eye-so is 2 and is much more common as a result.

There are exceptions though, normally for clarity - HDMI could be pronounced h-d-me to save a syllable but becomes distorted as a result.

The same is often true with numbers when they identify something, ie buses, address, etc.

1-5-7 is 3 syllables whereas one hundred and fifty seven is 8.

So people would say their address is 1-5-7 Arcacia Gardens but their new flash cost a hundred and fifty-seven quid.

If they lived at 17 Arcacia Gardens it's always seventeen, never one seven.

And, as above, JPEG is jay-peg, not jay-pee-ee-gee - even .jpe is jpeg come to that :lol:

Is 2000 two oh oh oh or two thousand?

In other words, people are basically lazy ;)
 
In my native language I say 'e-so'( as a one word) :D
 
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