How do YOU pronounce NES?

[JSoup]

Not at all. People sad 'mad' (Mutually Assured Destruction), 'gooey' (Graphic User Interface), 'duey' (Driving While Intoxicated), 'vin' (Vehicle Identification Number), 'pin' (Personal Identification Number), 'sam' (Surface-to-Air Missle), etc..

It's probably a regional thing or something. I hear people say vin and pin all the time, but the others? Never, just say the words.

[ProjectCamaro]

The correct way.

[Zap!]

Not at all. People sad 'mad' (Mutually Assured Destruction), 'gooey' (Graphic User Interface), 'duey' (Driving While Intoxicated), 'vin' (Vehicle Identification Number), 'pin' (Personal Identification Number), 'sam' (Surface-to-Air Missle), etc..

I have never heard anyone in NY say "duey" for DWI. So basically there is no rule? Some words get said out and some don't, for no apparent reason?

[Emperor Megas]

I have never heard anyone in NY say "duey" for DWI. So basically there is no rule? Some words get said out and some don't, for no apparent reason?I'm from New Orleans and hadn't heard anyone say 'duey' until I moved to the MidWest. Granted, I said DWI Driving While Intoxicated, but it's Driving Under the Influence (DUI).

[Crystalian]

That's probably a branch-off from the computer world. Some people pronounce G.U.I. as "gooey". When referring to a graphical user interface I would just say "interface" and assume that you understood what the heck I was talking about. If I felt compelled to use the acronym I would just say it by the letters, so it's a G-U-I just the same as driving drunk will get Y-O-U a D-U-I!

On the original topic though, I think it's time to retire N-E-S and go with something more modern a la Microsoft. Nintendo One anyone? Then we can argue about if it's the N-E-S box 1 or NESbox 1. which leads me to the way I like pronounce Microsoft's latest , ahem, "endeavour".

"The Nes-bone's connected to the X-bone..."

Here Fido, now fetch me an X-box One. No, NO!! I meant the "ORIGINAL X-BOX", not this new crap! BAD DOG!! Go bury the X-bone out in the back yard somewhere.

P.S. It always has been and always will be N-E-S, B-T-W!

[o.pwuaioc]

I've never heard "duey" or DUI (always D. U. I.) or "mad" for M.A.D. (but I've never heard it pronounced), but the rest of Emperor Megas' acronyms I heard.

Ultimately, like everything else in English, it's decided by usage, and there are no rules.

[MeTmKnice]

For the original nintendo I use N-E-S. For Super Nintendo I say "snes"

[otaku]

always done it by the letters and why would you any other way?

[rik1138]

That's probably a branch-off from the computer world. Some people pronounce G.U.I. as "gooey". When referring to a graphical user interface I would just say "interface" and assume that you understood what the heck I was talking about. If I felt compelled to use the acronym I would just say it by the letters, so it's a G-U-I just the same as driving drunk will get Y-O-U a D-U-I!

I've never heard DUI or DWI 'pronounced', ever... It's always D-U-I or D-W-I
But, I've always heard GUI pronounced gooey since the term was coined. Sure, these days you can just use interface, or U-I (actually, just U-I seems to be the norm now...). The 'Graphical' part is completely useless today as no one operates a computer by command line anymore (well, certainly no non-techies do). But in the early days of Win 3.1 and people trying to write DOS applications with a 'Windows/mouse' style interface, it was more meaningful as specifically graphical in design... Technically, all programs have a user interface (if you interact with it at all), but you wouldn't call the Infocom game interface 'GUI'. :)


For the original nintendo I use N-E-S. For Super Nintendo I say "snes"

This is me as well... The original is always an N-E-S ('nes' just sounds kind of silly)... But the other one is 'snes'. I never got used to saying S-N-E-S, but I have heard people call it that...