I&#x27;m not a fan of this for several reasons:<p>1. If you say, &quot;ISIS&quot;, everyone knows what you&#x27;re talking about. Not so for &quot;Daesh.&quot;<p>2. Anyone can read &quot;ISIS&quot; and know how to pronounce it. How does one pronounce &quot;Daesh&quot;? Is it daysh? Dash? Dah-esh? I don&#x27;t know.<p>3. We&#x27;ll still need to know and use the old names. There are thousands of historical news articles using the terms ISIS, ISIL, IS, The Islamic State, etc. Googling for them is already hard enough. It reminds me of xkcd&#x27;s Standards (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;</a>).<p>4. &quot;Daesh&quot; autocorrects to other things on iOS, Android, and Windows 10. It was very annoying to write this comment, as I was constantly un-correcting &quot;dash&quot;.<p>The author makes some good points, but I think they&#x27;re outweighed by the disadvantages I mentioned. Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag. We now have yet another name for ISIS.<p>Edit: I just thought of another one. If &quot;Daesh&quot; takes off, people may think those who use &quot;ISIS&quot; or &quot;The Islamic State&quot; are sympathetic toward the group. I&#x27;m certain I&#x27;ll slip up in conversation and have to dig myself out of a hole.