Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?

[Evan Bradley]

I was bBorn Illinois in 1983, and spent significant time in MD and PA.
 To me, they were always Legos (each piece was a Lego).


On 7/25/07, Darla Wells <dlw3208 at louisiana.edu> wrote:
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> Legos, Bossier City, Louisiana maybe around the 70's. Definitely Legos, San
> Bernardino, California, 1990, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1996.
> Darla
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> 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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> > Legos, New Jersey, born in 1963.
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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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