• meejle@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you are a transgender woman and you want to get an orchidectomy – that’s an operation to remove your testicles. In the USA they say “orchiectomy”, but here [in the UK] we say “orchidectomy”, because the whole point is that you keep the “D”.

      One of my favourite jokes from Philosophy Tube 😃