How do you pronounce "SNES?"

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How do you pronounce “SNES??”

I always called it the “S-N-E-S” or “Super Nintendo” growing up, and only until I grew up did I encounter a handful of weirdos who called it the “SNEZZ” but I was not ready for

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then now and forever it is NEZZ, SNEZZ and LEZZ PAUL

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esseneeess gang

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super nintendo I never encountered people saying snes and nes and nezz etc til SB

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Snessss like a snake

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snez, like everyone actually did in real life

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Snez in my head, S N E S to people I trust, Super Nintendo to people I don’t know. I don’t know why I code switch about this.

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I think people sounding out the abbreviations is an Internet era thing and probably has something to do with Earthbound blowing up post Smash Bros.

Honestly the abbreviations were just for branding and for magazine section headers that were trying to sound formal. It was always just “Nintendo” or “Super Nintendo” when spoken.

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And trying to fit a Z sound in there is probably something one of you started three years ago.

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i call it ess en ee ess. reading it out is standard! i’m not out here telling people about the piss3 version of demon’s souls having better atmosphere, or wanting to to play the guckin version of twilight princess. or telling people the nugpuc has microswitches and feels great to play on. etcetc

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verbally i’ve always just been either “super nintendo” or “super en-ee-ess”. if i read or write snes it’s ess en ee ess in my head

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Sness like a snake also, (and I’ve always said it this way, anything else is too many syllables for me, I’m lazy) but I’m going to start trying to change my habit to Super Ness like in that jp video because that’s the most correct pronunciation imo

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it’s fun to say sufami

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hamburger famicom

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Ess En Ee Ess but I think ‘Snayce’ would be fun

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I can tell I’m getting old because I caught myself referring to the NES as “Original Nintendo” in conversation recently

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Before the internet, I never heard anyone say anything other than “Super Nintendo”. I don’t recall if magazines used the SNES shorthand though.

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Yeah while these things were active platforms absolutely nobody in America used their full names or acronyms. They were just fucking Nintendo, I never head anyone say “snezz” until years later when I was around some Brits. Is some UK magazine to blame for that? Like with “shmup.” At least it’s better than shmup, kinda.

Magazines used the shorthand but they also called the PlayStation the “PSX” and y’know I’ve never heard anyone say “PEE-ESS-EX” out loud, thank goodness.

OK maybe I’ve done it to be annoying but I don’t remember anyone else doing it.

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iirc snezz was definitely a UK thing, i first heard about it from usenet. for me it was “super nintendo” or “nintendo” while the NES was “old nintendo” or “original nintendo”

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called it super nintendo most often, but i also said “super N E S” sometimes if i was trying to sound fancy

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