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I'm surprised to read this. I'm pretty sure the norm in English is to add "s" even to proper names (like most European languages I think? but unlike French) so
by seszett 4y ago
I'm surprised to read this. I'm pretty sure the norm in English is to add "s" even to proper names (like most European languages I think? but unlike French) so Legos would be logical.
In French it would depend on whether you write "des Lego" (capitalised, keeping is as a proper noun) or "des legos" (as a genericised trademark). Both are correct.
- smcl 4y agoYeah but remember that English is pretty irregular, so even though appending "-s" turns many words into their plural form there are many counterexamples. Like: - one fish, two fish - one sheep, two sheep - one child, two children - one mouse, two mice - one knife, two knives In this case many of us grew up using "lego" as the plural, so "legos" sounds to us a bit like "sheeps", "mouses" or "childs". Not a huge deal - nobody's losing any sleep over this, but it's definitely worth explaining why it sounds weird to some of us :)
- 7952 4y agoI think Lego is used in the same way as "milk". You have to arbitrarily divide it and has no natural division. You don't have some milks and you don't have some Legos. A Lego set is like a glass of milk. But sooner or later you just end up with a mess of hundreds of random pieces spread across children's lives like grains of sand. You hope they stay in the sand pit, but they will get everywhere.
- scaryclam 4y agoLego is the brand name, so it's more like calling two Nike store Nikes rather than Nike stores. Outside of North America it's more usual to refer to many Lego bricks as, well, Lego bricks or Lego pieces. If we're playing with a lego set etc, we'd just say that we're playing with Lego.