How do you pronounce Lego

[VPS]

Interesting discussion today.

Do you say LEG O or LAY GO and what state are you from and age group if you're happy to share.

My suggestion was that everyone in Australia in the 1960's set LAY GO but most people now say LEG O but I was told everyone always has said LEG O except for South Australians

 

[Forg]

It was leg-oh in NSW in the 70’s (and still is).
Must admit, haven’t heard “lay-go” before, not even from the over-pluralising Americans who keep wanting to incorrectly shove an ‘s’ on the end to describe multiple pieces.

 

[OZDUCK]

I have never heard it called "lay-go" either.

 

[Saab34]

Those who come from South Australia call it LAYGO.

 

[daft009]

Leg-oh

As a kid of the 80s I had fisher technik from Germany my dad got me when he travelled there for work. Saved money from his meal allowance to be able to afford it

 

[Pushka]

Laygo! . It’s an SA thing.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Interesting discussion today.

Do you say LEG O or LAY GO and what state are you from and age group if you're happy to share.

My suggestion was that everyone in Australia in the 1960's set LAY GO but most people now say LEG O but I was told everyone always has said LEG O except for South Australians

Nope. Never heard lay-go.

 

[jukebox333]

Just don't pluralise it, like the Americans do.

You build with Lego, not Legos.

 

[Lynda2475]

I say Leg-Oh as do the Danes who invented it.

Lay-Go weirdly seems to be only used in South Australia.

 

[Saab34]

Adelaide had a LEGO retail store in the past that also did birthday parties and so on, it was called ‘Laygo’. I think that’s where they got that from. As I’ve never heard it anywhere else on earth. It’s highly embarrassing also.

 

[Forg]

Is it cool to segue towards tearing into the “potato cake” people, not to mention those who call a suitcase a “port”?

 

[Saab34]

I call them ‘overhead bins’, while most here call them ‘lockers’. Yes I have spent too much time flying in the USA.

 

[Forg]

As long as you don’t start with “cookies” we promise not to flay you in the town square.

 

[RooFlyer]

My suggestion was that everyone in Australia in the 1960's set LAY GO but most people now say LEG O but I was told everyone always has said LEG O

Always had Leg O in Tas in the ‘60s.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Just don't pluralise it, like the Americans do.

You build with Lego, not Legos.

That’s a country isn’t it?

 

[serfty]

Interesting discussion today.

Do you say LEG O or LAY GO and what state are you from and age group if you're happy to share.

My suggestion was that everyone in Australia in the 1960's set LAY GO but most people now say LEG O but I was told everyone always has said LEG O except for South Australians

It's a rabbit hole I never intend to re-enter.

It is apparently based on the Danish word for "play well"

However you may be able to ask @ReLoad

 

[TheRealTMA]

But they don’t actually lock so overhead bins is better than the old hat racks.

 

[SYD]

Laygo! . It’s an SA thing.

Some Brits managed to f it up also.

 

[Catweazle]

Lahygo all the way-oh.

But then I grew up in South Oz.

And it doesn't have a double-G, right?

What do the Danes say?

 

[RooFlyer]

What do the Danes say?

Queen Mary, coming from Tasmania, would say Leg O

King Frederic will say anything Mary tells him to (apparently).