Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?

[Darla Wells]

Legos, Bossier City, Louisiana maybe around the 70's. Definitely Legos, San
Bernardino, California, 1990, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1996.
Darla

With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a
frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with. (Terry Pratchett)

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From: Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET>
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Sent: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:55:06 -0700
Subject: Re: Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?

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> Legos, New Jersey, born in 1963.
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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of James Callan Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:57 AM To:
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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.
>
> How does the Lego vs. Legos issue break down elsewhere? National boundaries?
> Regions?
>
>  -- James Callan
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