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Re:Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale by fnord123 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:36PM (#26856647)
Legos refers to the lego bricks like waters can refer to multiple glasses of water even though water is a mass noun and usually doesn't exist in plural. Same with peoples meaning multiple groups of people.
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Re:Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale by sturadnidge on Sunday April 18, 2021 @06:29PM (#26857107)
Sheep is perhaps a better example for comparison with Lego. Unless you know of an example where ‘sheeps’ has legitimate usage.
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Re:Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale by em-bee on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:11PM (#26858535)
not really, because sheep IS already plural. there is no singular for sheep. if there was it would have to be shoop. (feet->foot, teeth->tooth, etc...)
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