Right. tis pissing me off.

Lego or legos.

Of course smart intelligent people know that the plural of Lego is Lego. Not legos.

Example.

This is a single Lego brick
http://www.akb2.btinternet.co.uk/lego.jpg


And this is a sheep

http://www.akb2.btinternet.co.uk/sheep.gif

Ok. With me so far?

Good. Because now here comes the hard bit for some people

These are sheep. Ok?
http://www.akb2.btinternet.co.uk/sheep2.gif

Now are there sheeps?

Do you say to your slave (illegal immigrant) go and put the sheeps in the barn? Do you?? Well DO YOU???

No, then you are half way to being sane.

This is a bunch of Lego bricks.

http://www.akb2.btinternet.co.uk/9251-sm.jpg

Ok that is a pile of LEGO

Not legos. Where on earth did that extra s come from?

I can’t work it out. Its just plain wrong. Ok?

Well I put it to you, do you say legos and consider yourself smart. If you do, you’re wrong.

So vote in the poll and discuss below.

Do you say Lego of legos?

Lego Brick
Pile of Lego
I like to play with Lego.

There should never be an S

I fully concur with the above statement.

Those are nice sheeps.

You are definitely right, the extra 's' is ignorant.

However, LEGO® used as a noun should refer to the company.

What you have there is a pile of LEGO® bricks or LEGO® pieces.

This gets my vote for best thread of 2004 so far.....

unordinarychild spouted:
This gets my vote for best thread of 2004 so far.....

:stupid:
i'm with this dude

usher spouted:
You are definitely right, the extra 's' is ignorant.

However, LEGO® used as a noun should refer to the company.

What you have there is a pile of LEGO® bricks or LEGO® pieces.

In a sense, right. But if you were to say "Some Lego." it's implicit it means "Some produce from the Lego brand"

no, that's deterioration of a trademark. that's how kelloggs lost the trademark on cornflakes (and many other companies), because they allowed people to use it as a general term for a flaked corn breakfast cereal (or other companies allowed their trade names to be used as verbs)

Everyone Ive ever known says legos.

And I do too.

..Adobe have taken steps to prevent the same happening to Photoshop.

hugo-a-gogo spouted:
no, that's deterioration of a trademark. that's how kelloggs lost the trademark on cornflakes (and many other companies), because they allowed people to use it as a verb

Eh?

To Kellog or to cornflake? Verb? What?

its just Lego, no matter how many there are.

Lego - anywhere else....(danish stuff isn't it?)

legos is plain damn wrong

I play with my LEGO does not imply i am a pikey child who owns one brick!

Brausen spouted:


Eh?

To Kellog or to cornflake? Verb? What?

sorry, i went mad, editing and rewriting

hugo-a-gogo spouted:


sorry, i went mad, editing and rewriting

My response about photoshop sounds stupid then.. Please delete.. Thanks

In our local toy shop there is a massive array of Lego - Robin Hood, Pirates, space men and cheerfully jaundiced policemen all contribute towards the Lego available. Lots of different Lego. Easy Lego, hard Lego - nope sorry; can't think of a way of shoving an 's' on the end.

But wait...

...Lego'S policy of following all the latest film titles/fads is robbing kids of their imagination.

Not really plural but I knew there was a way ;)

na, it still makes perfect sense

unordinarychild spouted:


My response about photoshop sounds stupid then.. Please delete.. Thanks

No it dont. people are just starting to use more brand names as umbrella terms for the whole thing, like Hoover, Tannoy and even playstation, to an extent

So what does LEGO mean or stand for?

Is it some way made from the Danish for "lets play" or something of that ilk, I'm sure I read this many moons ago.

Is Indeed

Only Time I Say Legos...

Legostothepub...

Its bloody Lego! [b]The plural of lego is FUCKING lego[/]
I should know coz i live in new zealand and we have heaps and heaps of sheep.

Call me code master B

Lego. all the time.

Lexus' or lexi though?

/AlanPartridge

DoodleBug spouted:
So what does LEGO mean or stand for?

http://www.lego.com/eng/info/ says:

From the combination of the Danish "leg godt", which means to "play well."

I have to confirm, as being a foreign slave of my English master, that I am forced to put sheep to the barn.
And I am not allowed to play with his Lego.

Poor slave.

He also did not give you permission to waste time writing about sheep and Lego.

Back to the kitchen with you!

I have a friend who always calls it legos, it puts me on edge like i'm chewing tinfoil

Lintuk spouted:
Lego. all the time.

Lexus' or lexi though?

/AlanPartridge

Definately Lexi.

Dan....dan.....dan....dan....

The word has lost all meaning to me now...

KenTheSlayer spouted:
Everyone Ive ever known says legos.

And I do too.

But thou art a yank. With your "sidewalk" and your "sneakers" and your "aloominum" and your "erbs" and your "airplane" and your "lootenant."

;)

The rest I get, but sidewalk?

Pavement. And i say lego pieces, lego bricks or just plain old lego.

KenTheSlayer spouted:
The rest I get, but sidewalk?

He means pavement.

The same argument occurs when you talk about the euro. Do you have 2 euro or 2 euros???

Apparently 2 euro is the correct one.

[there were some heading arguments down the local with that one]

i would say two euros becuase euro is not a colective name as such but a noun for a singula thing

Lego. Without s.

When I was a kid I had loads of the stuff, and always referred to it as lego, and not legos. In fact, opposite to Ken T Slayer, I've never known anyone call them Legos.

plurals are bunches of inconsistent shits. I mean like goose, gooses, geese, geeses, goosling, gosling?

wtf?

"Im gonna go play with lego" just doesnt really sound right...assuming your dog/neighbor/penis/friend isnt named lego.

Ill chalk it up to cultural differences...

(legos is right)

Wrong.

Lego, people....people...it's called lego!

Lego - definitely

The definition of sad is that I read this article and noticed how they referred to the plural of lego before anything else...

http://www.theomahachannel.com/health/2814334/detail.html

Ken~ I am with you on this one. I say Legos, Catch says Legos and anyones else I have ever known says Legos. I think that is the way that you were brought up to say something. People who were brought up in different cultures pronounce words differently. And I am sure that over 50% of Americans say Legos.

same church
peebo or wha?
2 pb'zees

trxiegirl71 spouted:
I am sure that over 50% of Americans say Legos.

Then over 50% of Americans are wrong!

:P

trxiegirl71 spouted:
And I am sure that over 50% of Americans pronounce it wrong.

Fixed
:D

Lego

never heard Legos in my life

It's a bit like the kid at school that always asked "can i lend your pencil"

Irritating, yet probably an americanism, horses for courses i guess.
If Lego means "to play with" then surely Legos would mean "to play withs"

Last time I hear legos it was a mate who is unable to not say anything without making it sound like it ends in and S. Now this is normallys quites funnys buts is always felts bads whens wes tooks thes piss