If it’s an acronym, then it would be pronounced Sness. 

Your?

No, if it’s pronounced like a single word it’s an acronym, if you pronounce each letter individually it’s an initialism. 

But do they mean Ness as in the Loch Ness Monster, or Ness as in Nez (with a hard Z sound at the end), which is how I’ve always said it and how everyone else in the UK tends to say it?

No, YOU’RE the outlier! Myself, and everyone I know, have called them the Ness and the Sness since the early ‘90s.

No, YOU’RE the outlier! Myself, and everyone I know, have called them the Ness and the Sness since the early ‘90s.

It’s more like Nez, with a Z sound, rather than Ness, which I would have thought was pronounced as in the Loch Ness Monster.

How do Americans say that differently? According to the BBC, it should be ‘aitch’ but my entire life as a Brit I’ve known people say both ‘aitch’ and ‘haitch’ pretty much interchangeably.

Actually ‘aluminum’ was coined by a Brit.

Or “No Mans’ Skies”?

Just like Bill Murray and Lorenzo Music.

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TL;DR - Carpe diem

And now this tweet from her an hour ago -

Like a living embodiment of The Big Bang Theory.

^This. The fact that John thought there was a murder mystery when there wasn’t just happened to be the one of his many idiosyncrasies that got Brian Reed’s attention. When the podcast starts with that, you naturally think that you know where it’s going and you’re going to see the murder mystery solved, but that’s not…