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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: 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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