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Subject:	Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2003 03:34:21 GMT
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> Like 'LEGO'? ;) > > Is it misspelled or just invented? Either way, it's not a word that's > likely to be recognized by many scholars as being spelled correctly. DUDE! Do your lego research! 'LEGO' was originally derived by Ole Kirk Christianson as a contraction of the Danish phrase 'leg godt,' meaning, "play well." However, 'lego' is also latin for 'to put together.' <snip> > That's why the LEGO company isn't called 'The Plastic Brick' company. :) Actually, lego was originally a wooden toy company in Denmark. Somewhere along the way someone bought a plastic injection machine and they haven't been the same since... and somehow i think you've missed the humorous/ironic undertones to the thread. ;o) <snip>

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		Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
(...) All true. And good to point out. I guess my point was to illustrate that the LEGO company name is one of those words you won't find in a standard English dictionary... for the reason that it's an obscure or otherwise unique word that could be (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
(...) Like 'LEGO'? ;) Is it misspelled or just invented? Either way, it's not a word that's likely to be recognized by many scholars as being spelled correctly. (...) Actually, there's a very serious reason why companies purposely misspell words (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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