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That's punishment for 'Legos'.
I do not respect corporations. Legos.
If that were true, you'd just call them building blocks.
In Germany we call them Klemmbausteine, because fuck Lego.
Well okay I respect one corporation I'll call it hook and loop
Let's go harder and do Lego's. Lego's
Legos's
LegOS 1.2
Leg O's
Oui le goes
Legos my eggos
I will call them Legos till the day I die, like everyone I know has for 50 years.
I never heard them called "Lego" until the last few years. So its like kleanex and xerox
Legos legos legos legos legos legos
One Lego would be pretty useless, except as a caltrop.
Don't know (m)any Europeans then?
If I see more than one thing, I put an "s" at the end of it.
I don't support Lego tryin to be like "sheep" and "deer." 🙄
I think the difference is the perception of whether a piece of Lego is "a Lego"; in Europe, that's typically not the way the word is used.
I started writing a rebuttal that amused me until I noticed I'd misread your comment, and I don't want to delete it, so despite being irrelevant to what you've said...
All but one of those examples you mentioned are liquid, so they kinda don't fit into this question 🤷🏼♀️ because we would say "a bottle of glue" or "a can of Mace" or "a bowl of jello" or "a can of kerosene." I don't even want to contemplate AstroTurf /astroturfs, it bugs me 🤣
I think the Lego/Legos debate is similar to the GIF/"JIF" debate.
One just seems intuitively correct tothe majority of people without overthinking it, and the other sounds & feels wrong.