{"id":18050,"date":"2014-02-16T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/lego-plural-chart\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:46:48","slug":"lego-plural-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/lego-plural-chart\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18050 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/lego-plural-chart\/attachment\/18051\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n13yc4CB9h1qz4vjro1_1280-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/notes.husk.org\/post\/76882592542\/lego-plural-chart\">blech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A Google Books ngram result for <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/graph?content=LEGO+bricks%2CLEGOs&amp;year_start=1970&amp;year_end=2010&amp;corpus=15&amp;smoothing=3&amp;share=&amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2CLEGO%20bricks%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CLEGOs%3B%2Cc0\">&ldquo;Lego bricks&rdquo; and &ldquo;LEGOs&rdquo;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Lego Group themselves use the former; the latter is, as far as I know, exclusively known in the US:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/54_52_4f_4c_4c\">@54_52_4f_4c_4c<\/a> The correct one \u201cI have a box full of LEGO bricks\u201d \u2026 \u201cLEGO\u201d, because it\u2019s our brand name, shouldn\u2019t be pluralized. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div>\u2014 The LEGO Group (@LEGO_Group)<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LEGO_Group\/statuses\/434426630317285376\">February 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\">\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, if the chart above is to be believed, the singular plural (as opposed to mass plural) form seems to be more popular now. I find the \u201cLego bricks\u201d (or just \u201cLego\u201d, for a bunch of pieces) to work far better. Ah well. Language, eh?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blech: A Google Books ngram result for &ldquo;Lego bricks&rdquo; and &ldquo;LEGOs&rdquo;. The Lego Group themselves use the former; the latter is, as far as I know, exclusively known in the US: @54_52_4f_4c_4c The correct one \u201cI have a box full of LEGO bricks\u201d \u2026 \u201cLEGO\u201d, because it\u2019s our brand name, shouldn\u2019t be pluralized. \ud83d\ude42 \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4H8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18052,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions\/18052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}