Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?

[Amy West]

It's used as a count noun here in the Northeast of the US:

Let's play with Legos.

---Amy West
Worcester, MA


>Date:    Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:07:45 -0400
>From:    James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
>Subject: Re: Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?
>
>Up around here (Ontario, and in Alberta, where I grew up), I've been
>used to Lego as a mass object -- "Let's play with Lego" like "Let's
>have rice," or "He made that fighter plane out of Lego." I could
>probably find people who use the plural if I were to go looking for
>it and talking about Lego more. What I can report is just my own bare
>impression, which isn't exactly statistical...
>
>Ciao, James.

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