ISA Brown

[Fn87]

I am ashamed to say that I only just found out that ISA is an acronym standing for Institut de Sélection Animale and not in fact just a cool name that some people capitalize. Now given, I have only been working with chickens for about a year and a half and I'd only ever heard of ISAs about half a year ago. But I've been consistently pronouncing the breed as "eeza brown" (rhymes with Pisa) for six months. How does everyone else say the breed name? Do people take the time to spell out ee es ay brown? Do people call them eeza browns? Do people just call them Browns?
I'm curious and I couldn't find anything online about it(I also didn't look very hard).

 

[sourland]

eye sa brown

 

[SusanMc]

eye sa brown

I used to say I. S. A. Brown,, but my customer from Australia, got me saying it your way....and it stuck LOL

 

[Fn87]

EYE sa?! Huh! interesting