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Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map by cgriswald on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:03AM (#39380220)
You really don’t want to go down this road. I have no problem starting a movement to get Americans to call them “LEGO’s” and you won’t be able to even suggest it’s wrong because it’ll just be a contraction of “LEGO parts,” “LEGO bricks,” and “LEGO sets.” (But feel free to lambast us over punctuation and quotation marks.)
Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map by emsixteen on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:53AM (#39380480)
This comment made me twitch involuntarily.
Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map by scoot on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:30AM (#39381062)
That isn't how contractions in English work – you can't form a contraction from two nouns.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/con...

Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map by drcongo on Thursday February 15, 2024 @07:10AM (#39381743)
Quite right, what's needed here is a portmanteau - Legarts
Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map by sgerenser on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:44PM (#39386621)
I prefer Legricks. Dammit kids, pick up your legricks, I darn near killed myself!