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Re: Oh no, what have I done!?!?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:08:01 GMT
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In message <GBIAsE.2n0@lugnet.com>
"Dave Low" <stinglessbee@hotSPAMFREEmail.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.general, David Simmons writes:
> > What I find interesting (and very telling in a certain way) is that NO ONE
> > that I've ever met, child or parent has referred to them as "Lego bricks."
> > They (and I for the purposes of not wanting to come off as some kind of
> > weird snob) have always call them "Legos." Only until I joined this group
> > did I hear the argument that "You should always refer to them as Lego
> > bricks."
>
> On the other hand, here in Australia I have never heard Lego, or Lego
> bricks or a Lego set, referred to as "Legos". That's because we still speak
> English :^) [j/k, j/k].
Ditto here in England. "Legos" sounds extremely weird to my ears, and I'd
never come across it until reading rec.toys.lego. People in England refer
to it as "Lego" - a collective noun. They would say, "he's playing with his
Lego".
Seeing as they view it as a singular noun, do Americans generally call a Lego
brick "a lego"?
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| (...) Darn right you're just kidding. I've heard you lot speak in person and whatever it is you're speaking, it isn't quite the Queen's English. :-) (...) Yes, this is interesting, as is the plurality of firm names. US: "IBM has announced a new (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) On the other hand, here in Australia I have never heard Lego, or Lego bricks or a Lego set, referred to as "Legos". That's because we still speak English :^) [j/k, j/k]. My pet theory is that it's because Aussies learn a large number of (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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