Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 01:22 PM 7/31/2007, you wrote:
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>Subject:      Re: Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?
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>On 7/31/07, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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> > Quoting Alice Faber <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU>:
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> > > Beverly Flanigan wrote:
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> > >> But we DO remember Erector sets and Lincoln Logs, right,
> Arnold?!  Not to
> > >> mention plain old wooden blocks.
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> > > And tinkertoys...
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> > And a set of white plastic interlocking bricks (the brand name eludes
> > me), which in my experience (b. 1950) arrived before Lego(s).
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>A bit later on was another Danish innovation, the SOMA cube, which was
>first marketed commercially in the States in 1969 (by Parker Bros.).
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>http://www.fam-bundgaard.dk/SOMA/HISTORY.HTM
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>--Ben Zimmer
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Pre-Rubik's cube, I assume?

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