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[โ€“] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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...

How many super glues do you use for a repair? Do you play on an astroturfs field? Are people carrying maces in their bag for self-defence? Do you eat Jell-Os and burn kerosenes?

[โ€“] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

How many super glues do you use for a repair? Do you play on an astroturfs field? Are people carrying maces in their bag for self-defence? Do you eat Jell-Os and burn kerosenes?

All but one of those examples you mentioned are liquid, so they kinda don't fit into this question ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ 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 ๐Ÿคฃ

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.