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Re:A tale from the trenches fixing an NES by beervirus on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:12PM (#24902122)
It just depends on how you say the initialism. If you say "ness" then you'd use "a". If you say "en ee ess" then you'd use "an".
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Re:A tale from the trenches fixing an NES by bitwize on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:20PM (#24902195)
The "ness" pronunciation is chiefly used by Brits (who also tend to pronounce SNES as "snezz").
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Re:A tale from the trenches fixing an NES by werdnapk on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:09PM (#24903120)
Canadian here... ness all the way.
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Re:A tale from the trenches fixing an NES by hobby-coder-guy on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:05PM (#24903488)
Canadian here. N E S all the way. You must be french.
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Re:A tale from the trenches fixing an NES by intpx on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:35AM (#24906779)
This is absolutely horrifying
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