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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 14:00:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Bracey writes:
> In message <GBIAsE.2n0@lugnet.com>
> "Dave Low" <stinglessbee@hotSPAMFREEmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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."
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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].
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. :-)
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> 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".
Yes, this is interesting, as is the plurality of firm names.
US: "IBM has announced a new sales program."
UK: "IBM have announced a new sales programme."
I never did figure that out but I speculate that we view IBM as a single
entity (it is a corporation and has a wacky sort of (singular) citizenship)
while the UK view(s??) IBM as a collection of the people that comprise it.
> Seeing as they view it as a singular noun, do Americans generally call a Lego
> brick "a lego"?
Yes, among those not being pedantic (read: correct). Me, I call it "a
Lego(r) brick" or just "a brick"
++Lar
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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