this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2024
41 points (100.0% liked)

United Kingdom

4048 readers
278 users here now

General community for news/discussion in the UK.

Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.

Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm a dumb American who has never seen the word surgeries used in this context. Can someone explain?

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We also use surgery as you would use clinic. Hence we see our family doctor at the doctor's surgery.

When you go to see your representative in parliament, it's a similar set-up, so they also get called surgeries.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yup, thank you again. I'd gathered from the article that it was likely a sort of political consultation but even looking in a dictionary didn't exactly clear it up.

load more comments (2 replies)