Legos..............WTF IS IT?

I don't care how it's said; I want to play with them now that I've been reading about them and drooling over Ciel's set all day.

I really miss my castle set. I used to have the knights fight gas station employees and stuff from the other sets.

I fall in instant love with any girl who says "sheeps".

And is it "fish" or "fishes"?

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^^^That lego looks HUGE, more like megablocks.

I love this thread.

Odd. I instantly fall in love with a guy who know what color periwinkle is.

A kind of pale blue?

*Edit*
It's definitely fish.

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It's Prince Harry Lego.

I choose the spear and net.
Have at you!

But this is only half the story. "Lego" is a count noun in AmE, but a mass noun in BrE. This is the point that the UKers here complaining about "Legos" are missing.

"I have some Legos" in AmE is on the model of "I have some [=more than one] pencils," but "I have some Lego" in BrE is on the model of "I have some [=an indeterminate quantity of] milk." The comparison to "sheep" is a red herring, since in neither case is there a plural formed without a terminal "s."

(edited to correct punctuation to maintain use/mention distinction)

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Sheeps, that's what you sound like.



Say it now, out loud to yourself.

Sheeps

Everytime you say Legos you sound like you do when you say Sheeps.





edited to say that it's not just us UKers, it's anyone who doesn't want to sound like they do when they say Sheeps.

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Olivia the battle rages on.

DEATH MATCH!!!!

I see your point. I was arguing that BrE was more grammatically correct than AmE, though on the basis that it's reasonably likely that a person has (or is using) only one pencil, but improbable that someone would only have one piece of lego. This is what makes it a mass noun and not a count noun, thus making the use of "Lego" in the plural more correct.
imho

Hopefully sometime someone will explain to me how "aluminium" lost the second i on the way over the Atlantic, so that it doesn't fit with the trend of other metals ending in "ium"

Maybe we should rename them sodum, uranum, potassum etc. for simplicity

I think it is Duplo (definitely not Duplos)

I think the guy who discovered it first picked alumium then changed his mind to aluminum afew years later but the british had all ready started using aluminium

Yeah, they came in a blue bucket. THESE are the joys of having a single parent in college. You get all the knock off toys you want.

Fishes is multiple fish of multiple species.
Fish is many fish of the same species or just one.
Fishies is cute.

*is not a grammar expert but studied some fishes in a zoology class*

GO TO LEGOLAND!



Thank you

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