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It is the same reason as why the International Organization for Standardization is abbreviated ISO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_fo

• ThePadawan 7y ago
  Very Baader-Meinhof! I think I heard about this in a recent Only Connect or QI episode (?). I wonder what the overlap of viewers is between those shows and HN.
• blattimwind 7y ago
  In German "Internationale Standardisierungs-Organisation" could've been chosen to fit ISO, but they went with "Internationale Organisation für Normung" instead.
  • LeonidasXIV 7y ago
    Except that that hyphen does not make much sense here, if you wanted to write it you'd pick Standardisierungsorganisation instead which gives you a very long word and matching that to ISO is just odd. In official government speech words don't tend to get that long, instead they get split into multiple ("Bundesministerium der Finanzen" instead of "Bundesfinanzministerium").
    • blattimwind 7y ago
      That and abbreviations in German were generally not initialisms. It'd be InterStanOrg or something weird like that.