• BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If I have a mixed bucket of LEGO bricks and dump it in a pile, do I have a pile of LEGO or LEGOs? The fact that LEGO is plural was revealed to me within the last week, but I don’t know if it’s the same when talking about the individual parts vs ten packs of LEGO. It doesn’t feel right to say that the pile is a pile of 100 LEGO.

    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      It’s a collective noun, like sand. You have individual bricks that make up a pile of LEGO. I don’t like it, personally, and just keep saying LEGOs.