Why can't Americans

[Raunchy]

Ive only ever hesrd legos saying pick up ur lego just sounds weird

[Flatspriest]

The real question is why can't americans just use Celsius and the metric system like the rest of the fucking world?

As an American, the reason is ex-President Jimmy Carter.

[Independent voter]

Legos is losing business.

I guess to video games like everything else.

[cuafpr]

never really noticed anyone saying legos, always lego blocks

[Mormolyce]

This.

Hey England:

THERE'S ONLY ONE MATH.

There's MATH

And then all the little subsets of math like calculus, trigonometry, geometry, all under the umbrella of MATH, of which there is one thing. One. Not more than one. One. There is math. It is all math. Math is a container that contains all the mathematical topics.

And also, stop putting u's in words they don't belong. Color. Honor. There's no reason for there to be a u on these words.

See, we Americans took the English language and fixed all the dumb things the English did to it.

"Math" and "maths" aren't words. They're slang contractions of "mathematics" and therefore don't obey any rules of grammar whatsoever. "My gobbledegook is better than yours!" is essentially the argument here.

P.S. Why did you leave the "u" on "contour" and "detour"? In any case, if you wanted to be phonetic about it, the "ou" or "o" in colour/color etc are unstressed vowels, so you could literally write them with any vowel there. Colar. Coler. Colir. Color. Colur. All pronounced the same. The truth is, English spelling is largely arbitrary. Those words had "ou" because they had French roots. Webster changed some and not others when he invented US spelling, resulting in a highly specious tweak on English. He also recommended some spellings like "wimmen" and "thru" that didn't catch on so well...

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Ive only ever hesrd legos saying pick up ur lego just sounds weird

It definitely sounds weird to me, you should say "pick up your Lego blocks" or "Lego bricks" or "Lego collection" or something.

[Socialhealer]

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then whats with your aloominum?

[rayvio]

Depends. Do you actually enunciate the 'h' at the beginning? If you do 'a' is correct. If you don't than "an" is correct.

yes, the H is not silent. some county accents pronounce it silently but in that case it's "an 'erb" as I said

[Deleted]

This.

Hey England:

THERE'S ONLY ONE MATH.

There's MATH

And then all the little subsets of math like calculus, trigonometry, geometry, all under the umbrella of MATH, of which there is one thing. One. Not more than one. One. There is math. It is all math. Math is a container that contains all the mathematical topics.

And also, stop putting u's in words they don't belong. Color. Honor. There's no reason for there to be a u on these words.

See, we Americans took the English language and fixed all the dumb things the English did to it.

I'll admit you dumbed it down. What's this pavement shit? Well it's on the side and we walk on it. Sidewalk

[Speaknoevil]

A Lego box.
A box of Legos.
A Lego set.
Some Legos on the floor.
I stepped on some Legos.
I stepped on a Lego.
The Lego company.
I went to Legoland.
I really like that Lego set.

You see, when people say Legos, they are talking about multiple Lego bricks and pieces and have pluralized it.

[Deleted]

Germany, Belgium, Scotland, Japan, Australia, England and France.

No idea about Scotland, Japan, Australia or England, but I'm damn sure that France, Belguim and Germany, don't use the plural.

"Je joue au lego". is said, not " Je joue aux legos". France and Belgium both speak french, so one applies to the other. (But in all honesty, the pronunciation is identical)

In german it's "Ich spiele mit Lego" and not Legos.

Source: I live between those three counties.

[maccajoe]

Lived in Australia for 30 years, no one says legos.

What happens if I have a box full of equipment. I don't have equipments do I? What about feedback, feedbacks isn't a word. What about the luggage I took on my last holiday, I didn't take my luggages did I?

All ive heard in is Aus is Legos

[Allybeboba]

The answer is right in front of you people.
American English...
The same reason a spanner is a wrench.
A bonnet is a hood.
A wind is a fender.
A quid is a buck.
American English vernacular is simply different.

Just like American Spanish is different than Castilian.
Coche as to carro.
Vosotros as to ustedes
Baligrapho as to lapiz

Cheers

[Shibito]

Its like asking why brits say H wrong

[Deleted]

Its like asking why brits say H wrong

to be fair its our language

northerners who cant say HERB and say URB. People who say AXE instead of ask. Twot instead of twat, and one i heard an American say the other day was Adidas as adeeddas, behave.

[NoRest4Wicked]

Pretty sure even the LEGO company does this. Watch any of the number of LEGO documentaries/brickumentaries. They say legos when referring to the toy.

Unless, of course, the company doesn't know how to refer to its own product.

[Micronetic]

No idea about Scotland, Japan, Australia or England, but I'm damn sure that France, Belguim and Germany, don't use the plural.

"Je joue au lego". is said, not " Je joue aux legos". France and Belgium both speak french, so one applies to the other. (But in all honesty, the pronunciation is identical)

In german it's "Ich spiele mit Lego" and not Legos.

Source: I live between those three counties.

I live in Germany and I'm pretty sure I said "Legos" back then, even my friends said it.

[Ozyorkbourne]

I'm from the UK and now that you mentioned it. I think everyone does that here too.

Never heard anyone say legos instead of lego here in the UK myself (West Midlands). Perhaps it's a regional thing in the UK?

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The answer is right in front of you people.
American English...
The same reason a spanner is a wrench.
A bonnet is a hood.
A wind is a fender.
A quid is a buck.
American English vernacular is simply different.

Just like American Spanish is different than Castilian.
Coche as to carro.
Vosotros as to ustedes
Baligrapho as to lapiz

Cheers

Some American English is fine. I can understand how the car boot is more like a trunk and the pavement is the bit at the side you walk on. A few u's missing from words, fine. The only thing that American's say that I hate - genuinely can't stand is "could care less". That makes me grit my teeth. I'd like to say I couldn't care less about it but I could, I could care less about it because in fact, I care a great deal.

[alturic]

Ok Nazi man.

Owned. You make a thread complaining about why people call something by its plural form, but get called out on your own mistake. Hilarious.

[Swizzington]

Growing up in England I was real big on Lego. Was always playing with it. My family never called it "Legos". To my ear that sounds faintly ridiculous.

[Forgettable]

It's like Pokemon. Uneducated people call the plural form Pokemons.