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[usp84]

I called it "The Nintendo"

 

[Clefargle]

N

E

S

Like any acronym

 

[OneEightZero]

I made a Google Form you can fill out here and added it to the OP. This will make data much easier to collect.

 

[Kinhow]

Brazilian here and I say neither one...
I call it "nintendinho", it means Little Nintendo

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Nes. Pronounced 'Nez'. I say 'Snez' for its successor too.

Nez
Say-ga

Standard in UK

Yeah, this pretty much. I never knew anyone back in the day (so at my school, I guess) who said 'En Ee Ess'.

 

[Piccoro]

Ness

This is how I say it also. When I hear the Brits say it, they usually say "Nez" and the Super Nintendo: "Snez"

 

[RevenantKioku]

The first step in fixing a problem is admitting you have it. It is very good to see so many people admitting to their sins in here. Now, children, are you willing to take steps towards betterment? That is the question.

 

[Matty77]

Massachusetts, USA.

N-E-S but most just called/call it Nintendo.

And it was always Super Nintendo no acronym.

 

[J D]

The hell, where does the Z come in? That says "Ness".

I'm British, Scottish if we're being precise.

Well when i say it its not a full z but not an s somewhere in between

We say Buz instead of Bus in exactly the same way

 

[Ipsoclipso]

N.E.S

 

[NekoFever]

N

E

S

Like any acronym

Pronouncing it as a word is literally the definition of an acronym e.g. NASA, scuba, laser. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/acronym

Otherwise it's an initialism.

 

[Android18a]

I'm British and its Nez. Also it was always Say-ga, I didn't know anyone who said Sea-ga. Say-ga is right there in the Sonic intros.

Yep, always Nez and Snez. That's how it was always said on TV. Anyone who said "Sea-ga was ridiculed".

More importantly: "Bros" "Bro's" or "Brothers" for SMB?

I always said Brothers, but Violet Berlin of Bad Influence fame always pronounced it "Bros" like the 90s band.

 

[Big Nikus]

In France, everybody calls it "Ness".
Ness and SuperNess

 

[Cave Johnson]

I called mine the Family Computer.

 

[g11]

'Murica.

 

[tapedeck]

Nez? Da fuck?

It's pronounced Ness, but still I say N-E-S.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Pronouncing it as a word is literally the definition of an acronym e.g. NASA, scuba, laser. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/acronym

Otherwise it's an initialism.

Yes, but there is how a word feels in your mouth. "NEZ" is gross. "NESS" isn't completely gross but not great either.

 

[Syntsui]

It's actually Nintendinho, you silly.

 

[Noogy]

En Eee Ess. Pea Ess One. Gee Bee Ae. Seems simple to me.

 

[BjornTheBear]

Nintendinho.

Edit: Beaten.

 

[VegiHam]

who calls it the 'nes' why would you do that you dont do that for anything else it doesnt make any sense

I dunno man, some G A Ffers be crazy I guess.

I'm from England and call them Ness and sness. However, I'm young and have only ever known them as retro stuff talked about online. So I may have picked that up from reading the acronyms as words.

 

[Sapiens]

If you actually grew up with one in North 'Merica - you called it Nintendo.

After the SNES came out, you called them the Nintendo and the Super Nintendo.

I knew one guy who said "Ness" and "Sness" - he works a convenience store now. There you have it.

 

[BGBW]

It's pronounced Nezked.
Spelt NESCD.
Stands for Nintendo Entertainment System Control Deck.

 

[Tunavi]

Never called it the nez ever.

N E S

 

[Lord British]

Used to say Nez, realised it was daft, now say N-E-S.

 

[RevenantKioku]

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[xevis]

N.E.S, baby
(Australia)

 

[Zareka]

Ness says ness. NES says nez. Like Les vs less.

I can't see it like a regular word. That S stands for System, not Zystem, hence it sounding like a regular S.

 

[noquarter]

Was always N-E-S and Super N-E-S as a kid. But for some reason when emulators got big in the late nineties I started saying Ness and Sness. Don't know why. I go between the two now.

From the US, west coast when I got one.

Pigs can harbour a range of parasites and diseases that can be transmitted to humans. These include trichinosis, Taenia solium, cysticercosis, and brucellosis. Pigs are also known to host large concentrations of parasitic ascarid worms in their digestive tract.

Thanks!

 

[BGBW]

Also it's not SNES, it's Super NES. Look up the box designs.

 

[Plainsong]

Nez, snez, say-ga

UK/English here.

 

[gelf]

Well when i say it its not a full z but not an s somewhere in between

We say Buz instead of Bus in exactly the same way

Yeah it's basically said to rhyme with the name Les.

I don't say Buz though that sounds weird to me. Some do say it like that were I live though

 

[Stevey]

Yeah UK, Nez and Snez, like who says super n e s?
Also Mega Drive, not Genesis :v

 

[dh4niel]

NES = Ness
SNES = Snez

 

[Rndm]

N-E-S for sure. Never doubted it and it makes the most sense to me as it's an acronym with three capital letters that don't sound too great when pronounced as a single word. Afterall, it's not supposed to be the console of choice for the Loch Ness Monster I guess.

 

[Immaculate]

I always said it like Ness

 

[Carl]

Pigs can harbour a range of parasites and diseases that can be transmitted to humans. These include trichinosis, Taenia solium, cysticercosis, and brucellosis. Pigs are also known to host large concentrations of parasitic ascarid worms in their digestive tract.

Very informative, thanks

 

[Vincent Grayson]

If I'm actually saying it out loud, I say Nintendo and Super Nintendo.

On rare occasions, I might say en-ee-ess, but never "ness" or "nez" or any variation thereof.

 

[Mik2121]

I say "NES", not "N-E-S". Also I don't think I've ever called it "SNES" or "S-N-E-S" but rather "Super Nintendo".

Spain (saying "N-E-S" in Spanish is kind of awkward to pronounce so I think that's one of the reasons)

 

[BGBW]

Funny that the country that pronounced it Ness never got the game starring him until 2014.

 

[MrCunningham]

Also it's not SNES, it's Super NES. Look up the box designs.

And that is why I have always called it the Super NES or "Ess-Nes".

 

[NoKisum]

What has Nintendo themselves gone on record in saying?

 

[Kyonashi]

If you say N-E-S, but not Neo Gee-Ayy-Eff, then wtf are you doing.

Spoiler

It's Nez and Knee-yo-gaff.

 

[AmaterasuOkami076]

I'm from the UK, like for many others, we called it Nintendo and Super Nintendo when we were growing up. Then when the 64 came out it was NEZ and SNEZ.

Funny thing is I know a guy who pronounce Snes with a long "e" sound. "I've just finished Terranigma on the Sneeze"

 

[Digital Savior]

Usually as individual letters, N-E-S.

Sometimes as Ness.

Edit: USA East Coast

 

[JensenBeeswax]

German. I say N-E-S.

Edit: And "Super Nintendo".

 

[Qurupeke]

Ness like the character from Earthbound.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Nintendo (sometimes NEZ) and Super Nintendo. Also Sega is just Se-ga to me. Pronounce it as it looks.

 

[GamerJM]

I say "Original Nintendo," usually, though whenever I read NES in my head I think N-E-S.

 

[Jack Videogames]

Nez (Nehs) and Súper Nez. Spanish