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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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LEGO
Look, Americans... It's "Lego" or if you must, "Lego bricks", not fucking "Legos"!
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:15, 5 replies)
They call jelly 'jello' as well
and an arse is a fanny.

Oh man, what a crazy world.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:17, closed)
Yes, this.

(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:24, closed)
Then again they do this with all sorts of uncountable nouns,
so at least they're being consistent, but it did quite surprise me the first time I heard it.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:33, closed)
except maths
which is singular, for some reason
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:45, closed)
I see it all the time...
...in the replies to Lego based stories on blogs like gizmodo or engadget.

"Hey, I wish I could build that with my LEGOs!"

Almost invariably a Brit will pop up complaining about the use of Legos and spark off a debate.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:46, closed)

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