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* Latest headlineJean F. Martinelle
`* Re: Latest headlineAthel Cornish-Bowden
 `* Re: Latest headlineRuud Harmsen
  +- Re: Latest headlineAthel Cornish-Bowden
  `- Re: Latest headlinePeter T. Daniels

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Subject: Latest headline
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 by: Jean F. Martinelle - Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:00 UTC

Tory MP David Amess stabbed multiple times at constituency
surgery.

Are they being intentionally facetious?

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From: acorn...@imm.cnrs.fr (Athel Cornish-Bowden)
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Subject: Re: Latest headline
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 by: Athel Cornish-Bowden - Sat, 16 Oct 2021 07:46 UTC

On 2021-10-15 13:00:45 +0000, Jean F. Martinelle said:

> Tory MP David Amess stabbed multiple times at constituency
> surgery.
>
> Are they being intentionally facetious?

Probably not. "Surgery" is the everyday word for the place where people
go to talk to their Member of Parliament.

--
Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

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Subject: Re: Latest headline
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 10:45:50 +0200
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 by: Ruud Harmsen - Sat, 16 Oct 2021 08:45 UTC

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:46:05 +0200: Athel Cornish-Bowden
<acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> scribeva:

>On 2021-10-15 13:00:45 +0000, Jean F. Martinelle said:
>
>> Tory MP David Amess stabbed multiple times at constituency
>> surgery.
>>
>> Are they being intentionally facetious?
>
>Probably not. "Surgery" is the everyday word for the place where people
>go to talk to their Member of Parliament.

Interesting, I didn't know that. Never heard of those GP and dentist
senses either.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/surgery

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Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.com

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 by: Athel Cornish-Bowden - Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:53 UTC

On 2021-10-16 08:45:50 +0000, Ruud Harmsen said:

> Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:46:05 +0200: Athel Cornish-Bowden
> <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> scribeva:
>
>> On 2021-10-15 13:00:45 +0000, Jean F. Martinelle said:
>>
>>> Tory MP David Amess stabbed multiple times at constituency
>>> surgery.
>>>
>>> Are they being intentionally facetious?
>>
>> Probably not. "Surgery" is the everyday word for the place where people
>> go to talk to their Member of Parliament.
>
> Interesting, I didn't know that. Never heard of those GP and dentist
> senses either.
> https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/surgery

Correcting a little, for MPs the "surgery" is not so much the place as
the occasion for meeting their constituents and finding out what
they're unhappy about.

--
Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

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 by: Peter T. Daniels - Sat, 16 Oct 2021 13:53 UTC

On Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 4:45:56 AM UTC-4, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:46:05 +0200: Athel Cornish-Bowden
> <acor...@imm.cnrs.fr> scribeva:
> >On 2021-10-15 13:00:45 +0000, Jean F. Martinelle said:

> >> Tory MP David Amess stabbed multiple times at constituency
> >> surgery.
> >> Are they being intentionally facetious?
> >Probably not. "Surgery" is the everyday word for the place where people
> >go to talk to their Member of Parliament.
>
> Interesting, I didn't know that. Never heard of those GP and dentist
> senses either.
> https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/surgery

It is a local peculiarity of a British English dialect.

This person has now taken it upon himself to bitch about Americanisms.

Pot, kettle, black.

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