Lego
what is it with the septics that they call Lego, Legos?
(Swarve, Thu 1 May 2008, 23:15, 8 replies)

Aye and yet the call maths - math
Freaks
( M o D, Fri 2 May 2008, 0:09, closed)

Not all of us call it legos

what is with the 'maths'? Is the class plural?
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 2 May 2008, 1:09, closed)

www.legos.com
Used to display this rather grumpy message, which sadly seems to have been removed.
( benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Fri 2 May 2008, 1:13, closed)

Maths
is short for mathematics - math would just be short for mathematic
(Swarve, Fri 2 May 2008, 3:38, closed)

Because
there's no use for one Lego, unless you want to puncture someone's foot in the night by leaving it on a bedroom floor. Generally speaking there are loads of the little things- Legos. If there weren't you couldn't build anything.

And as for "maths"- you can keep your S on the end, along with all the extra "u"s you seem to need to sprinkle into words that are perfectly happy without them.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 2 May 2008, 12:49, closed)

Dont the Danish pronounce it LEEEGO?
I thinks thats where its from...

In which case, everyones is wrong :-)
(Phlash, Fri 2 May 2008, 14:01, closed)

To the Resident Loon!
If you need to refer to more than one of them, you call them Lego bricks not 'Legos'. The toy itself is Lego. With sheep you don't call them 'sheeps' do you?
(xendragon changing the bulb since, Tue 6 May 2008, 12:34, closed)

Agreed.
You have 'some lego'. Not some legos. I can see the sheep analogy working, but you would say 'a sheep', and not 'a lego'. I think using 'water' as an example is better.
(meat2veg hello!, Wed 7 May 2008, 18:46, closed)