How do YOU pronounce NES?

[Ernster]

Ever since I started collecing NES games and running a NES site, I use to always think everyone called NES as in one word. All my friends call it that thanks to me, and every time I went to NES sites id call them NES World, NES Files etc. But to my horror, I realised that some people instead call it by the letters as in N-E-S. That sounds so wrong

Anyway how do you say it?

[JWKobayashi]

Of course, NES stands for Nintendo Entertainment System - so I call it N.E.S.

[Jibbajaba]

I say NES, as in "Loch Ness", in my own head. Like if I'm thinking "I want to get some more NES games". If Iam speaking about the NES, I just say "Nintendo".

"I'm going to go play Nintendo."

"I have that game for Nintendo."

"Some fat guy sat on my Nintendo and now it doesn't work."

usw....

Chris

[Simply Dave]

By the letters. N.E.S.

[Dr. Morbis]

I say it like a word "ness". I don't understand why people would say N.E.S. Any time an acronym makes a pronouncable word, it's spoken as a word. The letters are only said individually if it isn't pronouncable as a word. Examples:

-FBI is not pronouncable as a word so it's said F.B.I.

-SCUBA is pronouncable as a word so it is spoken as such.

[Landon]

Had this debate many times before.

I am also a big gun nut. Most firearms have letter designations.

FAL, AR15, CETME, AK47, etc....

Well, I use the individual letters for guns.
An "Ack-Fourty Seven" just doesn't sound right- I do, however, know a few people who call FAL's "Fall's" and CETME's "Setme's"

But on NES games, I call it "Nes"- rhymes with Guess.

[Bratwurst]

Wasn't aware this was even an issue.. show me a television commercial that pronounced it as 'Ness', much less the official ones produced by Nintendo of America. Open and shut case.

Well, then there's Nester in those old Nintendo Power comics, but that's more of a pun than anything else.

[tholly]

by the letters of course N.E.S.

[scooterb23]

Like a word yo...

Caress your nes..

[Nesmaster]

i say NES like ness. just sounds better:

i collect NES games
i collect N.E.S games

[Emily]

I pronounce it N.E.S but it seems like one word. Eneeyess--say it fast.

[captain nintendo]

How about an option for both ?


Its N.E.S. because it stands for Nintendo Entertainment System , which I actually say N.E.S. at times

But for the most part I say nes when talking with fellow gamers.




Look over there in the lake its ole Nessy. :P

[imanerd0011]

I had no idea anyone besides the king dork himself Adam Sessler (from X Play) called it NES as one word.
Everyone I've ever met in my life say N.E.S. by the letters. If someone asked me about the NES (as in one word), I wouldn't even know what they are talking about.

[NintendoMan]

I have never heard one person in the entire world call NES by one name.

Only N - E - S. Each letter pronnounced.

[Ruudos]

show me a television commercial that pronounced it as 'Ness', much less the official ones produced by Nintendo of America. Open and shut case.

Not much commercials were shown here, but the ones I remember didn't talk about N.E.S. or ness, but just Nintendo (..now you're playing with power )

[adaml]

Do those of you that pronounce it like "Ness" pronounce the SNES as "Sness"?

I've always been an N. E. S. guy.

[Crush Crawfish]

I've never, ever heard anyone pronouce it as one word. N.E.S for me. I also have a habit of calling it "Regular Nintendo." I think I picked that one up when the SNES first came out. It's stuck ever since. :/

[Proclus]

I don't know about the other native French speakers on these forums, but as for me I tend to use "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo" when I talk about these consoles.

[anagrama]

I'm a one-worder. Phonetically, it's probably 'nehz'. Shorter 'z' sound than something like 'buzz'.

[Gapporin]

Do those of you that pronounce it like "Ness" pronounce the SNES as "Sness"?

My friend pronounces both the NES and SNES that way.

Myself, I use the letters.