How do YOU pronounce NES?

[aaron7]

en eee es

[ubikuberalles]

I pronounce the letters: N.E.S.

Oddly enough I also pronounce Richard Sanders character in WKRP the same way:

L.E.S. N.E.S.S.Man

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

I spell out "NES" but say "SNES" as one word.

[ProjectCamaro]

Woah, a seven year old thread brought back up.

[Einzelherz]

Woah, a seven year old thread brought back up.

Which I find ironic since I was thinking of posting one about it the past couple of days.

[o.pwuaioc]

Why is this a thread again? And why were so many people wrong? It's clearly "Nintendo" or—officially, even!—N. E. S.

[DeputyMoniker]

Why is this a thread again? And why were so many people wrong? It's clearly "Nintendo" or—officially, even!—N. E. S.

Maybe the same reason they pronounce Mario wrong. They just like being wrong?

[BlastProcessing402]

Maybe the same reason they pronounce Mario wrong. They just like being wrong?

Must be why so many people say Enix wrong. It's Phoenix without the F sound at the start, that's where the name came from*, stop saying ehnix. The worst people are those who say sness, though. They can eat a bag of something unpleasant.


*(that and ENIAC, which also has the EE sound, not the EH sound)

[Little Miss Gloom]

Me, browsing the Classic Gaming subforum:

"Oh, look - a thread about how people pronounce the Nintendo initials. I wonder how many nerds are going to totally flip their shit and be flat out dick-holes to the personal preferences of their peers, based on the various societal/commercial experiences said dick-holes blindly do not take into account?"

Why does this even matter? If you really want to know, I call it the "EN-EE-ESS". I also sometimes call it a "Goddamn mother-bitch" when I can't get a specific game to work, but that's not really something that will illuminate the darkness in some poor reader's soul.

[JSoup]

Me, browsing the Classic Gaming subforum:

"Oh, look - a thread about how people pronounce the Nintendo initials. I wonder how many assholes are going to derail the thread to bitch about other people being on about the personal preferences of their peers, based on a failure to understand how discussion and good-natured ribbing works?"

[Little Miss Gloom]

Ooh, burn~

[buzz_n64]

Whenever I hear someone calling it Nes as one word, it pisses me the hell off like crazy! If you call it that, I hate you, just don't say it around me or in a video I'm watching. It's like hearing nails on a chalk board.

N.E.S. plain and simple.

[ColecoFan1981]

Whenever I hear someone calling it Nes as one word, it pisses me the hell off like crazy! If you call it that, I hate you, just don't say it around me or in a video I'm watching. It's like hearing nails on a chalk board.

N.E.S. plain and simple.

Let this topic go A.W.O.L. (and I mean to pronounce that as individual letters, not as one word)

~Ben

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

Let this topic go A.W.O.L. (and I mean to pronounce that as individual letters, not as one word)

~Ben

Threads never die. If it's still relevant to someone, why not continue it? People still pronounce NES today, just as they did in 2005. It's not like every NES and everyone's memory of NESes vanished in the nine years.

Some of us here were too young to join Digital Press in 2005 when this article ran its course. To post on this thread in 2005, you would have had to been born before about 1999 just by having to be able to read fluidly and post on a forum. Add to that the language and COPPA, and the threshold falls into the early 1990s.

Threads aren't just for people who were old enough to be on DP when they started. They're for anyone who's old enough today. And some of those people were just 4 years old when this thread was last posted (using 13 as our "old enough" cutoff). So we have the people born between Aug 11, 1992 and May 23, 2001 (as of this post) who never got a chance to post in 2005. Maybe there were some users under 13, but no toddlers I'm sure.

For all we know, people who weren't even born when this thread started could post on it in a few years.

[buzz_n64]

Threads never die. If it's still relevant to someone, why not continue it? People still pronounce NES today, just as they did in 2005. It's not like every NES and everyone's memory of NESes vanished in the nine years.

Some of us here were too young to join Digital Press in 2005 when this article ran its course. To post on this thread in 2005, you would have had to been born before about 1999 just by having to be able to read fluidly and post on a forum. Add to that the language and COPPA, and the threshold falls into the early 1990s.

Threads aren't just for people who were old enough to be on DP when they started. They're for anyone who's old enough today. And some of those people were just 4 years old when this thread was last posted (using 13 as our "old enough" cutoff). So we have the people born between Aug 11, 1992 and May 23, 2001 (as of this post) who never got a chance to post in 2005. Maybe there were some users under 13, but no toddlers I'm sure.

For all we know, people who weren't even born when this thread started could post on it in a few years.

You can't make everyone happy. You will also get people upset if you create a new thread about this. People will make a post directing everyone to an older thread where the same conversation has taken place. I think this is the best solution.

[Zap!]

Whenever I hear someone calling it Nes as one word, it pisses me the hell off like crazy! If you call it that, I hate you, just don't say it around me or in a video I'm watching. It's like hearing nails on a chalk board.

N.E.S. plain and simple.

My feelings exactly on those who say out the letters.

[Aussie2B]

Must be why so many people say Enix wrong. It's Phoenix without the F sound at the start, that's where the name came from*, stop saying ehnix. The worst people are those who say sness, though. They can eat a bag of something unpleasant.


*(that and ENIAC, which also has the EE sound, not the EH sound)

I've always pronounced "Enix" with a hard "e", but I can't really fault people who pronounced it with a soft "e". That is, after all, how it is pronounced officially in Japan. The official spelling of "Enix" in katakana is "エニックス" and "エ" is a soft "e" like in "bet". If they really were insistent on people pronouncing it with a hard "e", they could've just as well spelled the name in katakana as "イニックス".

Neither is really wrong in the end. It's sort of like when you hear, say, a news anchor of Hispanic descent reporting on something using plain, flat English suddenly pronounce a Hispanic name exactly as a native Spanish speaker would, accent and all. As a native English speaker, you can pronounce every English loan word in the Japanese language as a native English speaker would say it, but the Japanese have their own standardized way of pronouncing loan words and it's not wrong to do it their way, especially if you're speaking to a Japanese person (it's very possible that, with some words that are heavily altered, they may have no idea what you're saying if you pronounce something like a native English speaker).

[kentgames]

Ahhh its all about the N eee ess. Makes S N eee ess sound even cooler.

Quite proud that my first post on digit was to correct people on how to speak Nintendo, the language of love and gloves.

[Metalwario64]

N. E. S. for me personally. Though I use Super N. E. S. because it rolls off the tongue better for me.

I don't get why anyone would have such strong resentment towards using "NESS" though... It's not my cup of tea, but it doesn't really bother me.

[Polygon]

I always say it by the letters. The other way just sounds weird to me.