Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?

[Beverly Flanigan]

I've never heard anything but "Legos."  But more interesting to me is the
shift in pronunciation (understandable in AmEng) from [lego] to [lEgo], as
in "Leggo my Eggos" (remember that one?).

At 02:56 PM 7/25/2007, you wrote:
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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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