Any 80s kids learn how spell WedNESday because of the NES?

[xir]

i sure did

 

[ratify]

Me too. I learned it by thinking it was a marriage day for my video game machine Wed-nes-day

 

[Fat4all]

 

[SilverX]

... Did you want to wed your NES as a kid or was that only just subconsciously part of it?

 

[AstronaughtE]

No. I mean yeah, I broke it down like that, but I never really thought of the n.e.s. like nes.

I do still sing a Rocko's Modern Life song to help me spell recycle.

Video games taught me how to spell cooperative and what it meant though.

 

[xir]

I mean it's the hardest day to spell and six year olds need tricks.

 

[Tambini]

I learned from Nintendo twitter account

 

[Blagtier]

Now I know how to spell Wednesday. Seriously. You know because of dyslexia.

 

[Boopers]

Whensday

 

[Dunfish]

Like the uselesSNESs of this thread?

 

[Elf Needs Food Bad]

No...not at all

 

[Timewarp]

Subconsciously, I probably did. Was the only one in my class with a NES, and the only one that spelled it correctly on a pop quiz.

 

[Kiyamet]

Odinsday

 

[CognitiveAtrophy]

No, because we didn't call it the NES. We called it the Nintendo.

 

[Unknownlight]

In Japan it's spelled Wedfcday.

 

[WardFail]

I have a core middle school memory of a classmate during around and telling me how to remember spelling Wednesday., "Wed-Nes-Day". Don't remember the context and maybe she was being an asshole, but that's how I've remembered it since.

edit: She wasn't a gamer and I'm pretty sure it had nothing to do with the actually Nintendo Entertainment System.

 

[xir]

No...not at all

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How'd you learn it then?

 

[k0decraft]

Whensday

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This.

Whensday that was ? Oh, tomorrow ?. Ok, got it.

 

[twothreesix]

I do exactly this even still. Wed-NintendoEntertainmentSystem-day.

Kind'a odd to read this post. Thought this was something that only existed in my mind.

 

[Nakenorm]

I legit learned how to spell it the other day.
Or I guess I learned it back in school and had to re-learn it recently because I forgot. How did the NES help you learn it?

Edit: oh..

 

[BorganXI]

Was an 80's Nintendo kid and never heard of this. Lol.

 

[mrbogus]

No. I learned it by looking at the word Wednesday.

 

[Gelf]

I was taught to break it down to Wed Nes Day but I didn't even know what a NES was when I learned that.

 

[Scarlett]

How'd you learn it then?

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I was an advanced reader and spelling bee ace.

 

[SinnyIndonesian]

How'd you learn it then?

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I was an English prodigy

 

[Damien1990]

I was born in 1990 and had a NES but don't think spelling Wednesday was really an issue as we were raised in a town called Widnes, so seeing the town name everywhere made it easier I guess.

 

[cowbanana]

I... no. I'm not a native English speaker, but I could spell "Wednesday" without the NES existing.

 

[JustTeaThankYou]

No. I learned it by looking at the word Wednesday.

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[Windu]

Certainly made it easier

 

[Jimnymebob]

Wednezday.

 

[Tailzo]

No, never even thought about it.

 

[Foolhardy]

No but I did learn how to spell February thanks to Ru Paul.

 

[Heynongman!]

How common was the "NES" abbreviation in the 80s? Growing up in the 90s with siblings that grew up in the 80s, none of them called it anything but Nintendo or Super Nintendo for SNES. I always got the sense that these abbreviations as common slang for the consoles came later

 

[kimbo99]

90s kid here but I learned and never forgot how to spell Wednesday because of how my Nigerian parents pronounced it: "Wed-nes-day", instead of "whens-day"

 

[Turnabout Sisters]

Growing up my teacher told me "Friday ends with friends" to remind me how to spell friends. But growing up I found out that Friday ends the same as every other day, alone.

 

[xir]

No but I did learn how to spell February thanks to Ru Paul.

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Yeah but that's how everyone learns that

 

[Tagovailoa]

wed-nes-day

i even say it in my head like that

 

[Ant_17]

English is a 2nd tung so i learned it to sound wetness with a D

 

[bananab]

I don't think I remember calling it an NES before discussing it online. It was a Nintendo, and then when the Super Nintendo came out, I think my friends and I all switched to calling it the Original Nintendo, or Old Nintendo. And meanwhile, I imagine we learned to spell days of the week very early, gotta be pretty close to learning the alphabet and months of the year, no? Quite possibly earlier than even understanding what an acronym was.

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

Odinsday

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[hydro94530]

This is not a way to learn how to spell Wensday people!!!!!

 

[xir]

This is not a way to learn how to spell Wensday people!!!!!

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Nah its valid

 

[DaToonie]

I'm a 90's "kid" (more 2000's than 90's, tbh), and I learned it through a kind of similar way?
Through knowing about the NES through Ness from EarthBound, because he was my main in Melee.

...Worked for me, lol.

 

[senj]

I remember learning to say "wed nes day" in my head to remember how to spell it, but for whatever reason I never really connected that with the NES

 

[hydro94530]

Nah its valid

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I used to spell it Wensday when I was younger. I was making fun of myself I guess lol.

 

[JustinH]

I'm gonna say "no..." but if I'm honest, it does flicker like a memory of myself going something "There's an N-E-S in there!"

I'm pretty sure I'm not making that up, lol.