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If you want to get pedantic, LEGO is a brand name and used as an adjective. The things the LEGO group sells are not Lego or Legos; they’re LEGO bricks or LEGO
by JonathonW 4y ago
If you want to get pedantic, LEGO is a brand name and used as an adjective. The things the LEGO group sells are not Lego or Legos; they’re LEGO bricks or LEGO sets.
Only really makes sense to resort to such pedantry if you’re LEGO’s marketing department and concerned about genericization of your trademark, though. Everyone knows what you’re talking about if you say “legos”.
- defrost 4y agoAs a non USA-ian I can't say I ever heard a single person talk about "legos" until I joined predominately US forums. Hearing people talk about Lego as "Legos" still sounds weird AF.
- ggm 4y agoI'd love to know if any non European language pluralises Legos the way American English speakers do. It's possible their linguistic constructs don't invite it. I have no particular issue with either English changing under use, or neologism becoming normalised. In 50 years Legos may be the predominant form. After all, "dove" replaced dived. Linguistically maybe it made more sense? But for now, the Queens English being understood, it's like sheep. It pluralises itself. A piece of lego, a box of Lego, a lego set, a bridge made of lego. It's a lego bridge.