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It is not so much to make them sound a bit silly, but that other Islamic countries (i.e The Islamic Republic of Iran) feel that to refer to them as IS gives them a form of legitimacy. They are not a State, and they don't represent the majority of Islamic opinion.
Most of the Arabic speaking world uses Daesh, but apparently the tabloids think we are too thick to understand forrin.