| Mandalore76 said: I always pronounce the letters. It's what you're supposed to do when abbreviating a title with the first letter of each word as in the case of Nintendo Entertainment System. I have heard people on YouTube and such say Ness, Sness, and even the more oddly sounding Snezz, which I guess they think sounds jazzier? But, does anyone pronounce I B M as ihbim (or something along those lines?). Or AT&T as ahtint? I've also never heard the PS4 pronounced Pzzfore. So, it doesn't really seem logical to me. |
I live in Quebec and it's not always the case! I could even go as far as telling you that some organizations do it on purpose so you can pronounce it as a full word, even though it is an abbreviation.
In France, the Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs, which promotes video games and players to politics, institutions and media, is abbreviated SELL. We pronounce it as is, ''sell''.
In Quebec, AQTIS, which is the regroupment for all technicians of image and sound, is straightly said as ''A-k-ti-ss''. On the other hand, the regroupment for actors UDA is spelled with letters ''You-Dee-A''.
So we say Ness for NES and Super Nintendo for SNES.
