Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?

[Scot LaFaive]

Eau Claire, WI....legos

Scot


>From: James Callan <james.callan at COMCAST.NET>
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>Subject: Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?
>Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:56:35 +0000
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>On his blog, Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings recently discussed what one reader
>considered an error in his book Brainiac: Lego vs. Legos. Jennings says
>"Legos," which LEGO (the company) and many Lego fans don' t care for. As
>Jennings says:
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>Some households say “Let’s play with Lego.” Others (a majority in America,
>I’m guessing) say, “Let’s play with Legos.”
>(http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=496)
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>I say "play with Legos" -- born in '70, raised in Wisconsin's Fox Valley
>and Milwaukee suburbs.
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>How does the Lego vs. Legos issue break down elsewhere? National
>boundaries? Regions?
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>  -- James Callan
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