Lego. Countable to Americans; uncountable to Australians. (i.e., "He built a castle made out of Legos," sounds strange to an Australian, but not an American.)
Ice cream. Countable to Australians; uncountable to Americans. (i.e., "We'd like two ice creams," sounds strange to an American, but not an Australian.)
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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The reason why the first one sounds odd to us is because Lego is a type / brand of building blocks. So we're being lazy by not saying "He built a castle made out of Lego blocks."
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