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by anigbrowl 5096 days ago
Lego also stands for something plural. That's how it has always been used, and hearing/reading it the other way is just as jarring as talk of sheeps or rices would be. Please stop.
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I've always used Legos. Not that it matters since you understand it either way. Do you routinely struggle with minor usage differences?
It jumps out at me, the same consistent misspellings or grammar errors do. Os I wouldn't say I struggle with them, but they are certainly an annoying distraction.
We're already diverging from the official version, so I don't think one could be more correct than the other. This is like arguing over whether "octopuses" or "octopi" is correct when the etymologically correct form is "octopodes." Only pedants and etymologists worry about it.
I like etymology, and I'm fine with being a pedant too.
I made an igloo with some snows last winter!
Huh, for some weird reason I always thought iglii were built out of ices. Never really looked into it until now.
Did you see any Mooses while you were out there?
That's "meese," you pedant.