Talk:Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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SNES pronunciation

In some newer YouTube videos you can hear people call it "snazz" instead of s-n-e-s. How common was this at the time of its release? KhlavKhalash (talk) 14:30, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

:I've never once heard it in my life. Source: am old. -- ferret (talk) 16:46, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

::This isn’t the best place to ask but I recall hearing that snazz was more common among Europeans.--67.70.103.36 (talk) 17:57, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

:Spelling SNES out loud as "S.N.E.S." is the North American pronunciation. In some other countries, such as the UK, it's pronounced "Snez".

:This has potential WP:ENGVAR implications for Wikipedia. In American English, "an SNES game" would be correct, but in British English, "a SNES game" would be correct.

:All of the above also goes for NES.

:And after having written all that, I see this is already covered in a footnote in this article: {{tq|The name "SNES" can be pronounced by English speakers as an acronym (one word, like "NATO") with various pronunciations, an initialism (a string of letters, like "IBM"), or as a hybrid, like "JPEG". In written English, the choice of indefinite article ("a" or "an") is therefore problematic.}} Popcornfud (talk) 19:58, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

::Surely that would only apply when speaking (i.e. someone from the US may say "...an S-N-E-S game"), but the written rules don't change (it would be written "...a SNES game" in both American and British English. Total Eclipse (talk) 10:30, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

:::No, the writing follows the pronunciation. We write "a UFO", not "an UFO". Popcornfud (talk) 11:04, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

:I always called it the S-N-E-S. but this isn't really a forum to ask your questions and chat. 2601:3C5:8180:31D0:2D9E:3981:126D:2327 (talk) 02:35, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Lead image

Do we need both the Japanese and European models there? They are really similar and there is a gallery further down the article that showcases all the models. Mika1h (talk) 15:48, 15 April 2025 (UTC)