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      “A 'ISO” where that apostrophe represents hard attack on the vowel sound.

      As for what that is, consider the phrase “Paula asked a question.”

      If enunciated clearly there’ll be a hard attack between “Paula” and “asked”.

      (In this example, some — chiefly British — people will put an R sound between them if they don’t enunciate clearly. The R wouldn’t show up in “A ISO”, but this is to demonstrate hard attack, not get into those weeds.)