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Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by chrisseaton on Friday September 11, 2015 @08:20AM (#10203222)
In the UK we call them lego because we consider it to be a mass noun, like sand rather than sands, and a grain of sand and a piece of lego.
Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by dagw on Friday September 11, 2015 @08:22AM (#10203228)
I've heard "Legos" said plenty of times in England. So while it might not be correct it's hardly uncommon.
Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by fred2133 on Friday September 11, 2015 @08:56AM (#10203384)
Weird. Lived here all my life, only time I've ever heard it is in "look at those wacky Yanks" conversations. South coast/London here. Maybe it's regional?
Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by dagw on Friday September 11, 2015 @09:00AM (#10203399)
Trying to pattern match on my experiences, I might conclude that it's an age thing. People over 40 are more likely to say "Legos" than those under 30.
Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by teh_klev on Friday September 11, 2015 @11:00AM (#10204027)
From a UK perspective. I'm 48, most of my friends are 38-60'ish, we all call it Lego. I'm more inclined to believe that it's younger people in the UK (under 25-30) that use "Legos", simply due to the availability of US kids telly that us older farts never had (I barely had three channels up until 2002 - BBC1/2 and Channel4). My ex's kids picked up some of these aberrations ("so fun" instead of "so much fun" is an example that used to grate for me). There were so many times I wanted to sabotage that bloody Sky box.
Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by DonHopkins on Friday September 11, 2015 @08:52AM (#10203365)
Like math? ;)