Is it Jab or Jag?!

[FawnFrenchieMum]

I see both written and never know which is right?

I always say jab but wondering if I’m wrong?

YANBU - Jab
YABU - Jag

My Scottish cousin says jag. I'm English and say jab. I hate the American word shot. You're not shot with a firearm!

Heads going to explode?

To add to the confusion, in local slang from my neck of the woods (not UK), a ‘jag’ is a date.

www.washingtonpost.com/local/needle-shot-morphine-addiction/2021/02/15/288282d2-6fa8-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html

Interesting article about why Americans get 'shots'.

Well in Scotland you have a "sho' on a chu' " ( a shot on a chute ) with all ts dropped so it's hard to hear what the words are. ( That's a turn on the slide) A shot is a turn on something.

The glottal stop isn't found in all of Scotland but I definitely use shot as a turn.

A jab is a punch and a shot is a turn.

@KingsleyShacklebolt

Are you really having a go at other people for being small minded after your spectacularly small minded thread on setting a minimum spend on petrol?

Jag in Scotland (as others have said)

@discombobulatedonion

You know that Scots is a whole language, yes?

Which other languages infuriate you? Or is it just the Scottish you dont like having a language, culture and history of their own?

I have never ever heard anyone refer to it as jag learn something new every day!

Vaccine

But a vaccine doesn’t have to be delivered by a jab or a jag. Think of the oral vaccine against polio! The correct word is injection!

I must be too far south. I've never heard it being called a jag before. Learn something new everyday.

Scots isn't a language, despite what the SNP might think.

People who live in Scotland use different words and expressions depending on where they live. Yes some words like "jag" are used across the country, but that doesn't mean someone from Aberdeen uses the same words and phrases as someone from the Hebrides, Glasgow or Dumfries.

A shot is something else entirely, surely? In both Scotland and England it's something you have with your pint…

@horseymum

Well in Scotland you have a "sho' on a chu' " ( a shot on a chute ) with all ts dropped so it's hard to hear what the words are. ( That's a turn on the slide) A shot is a turn on something.

Again, that's not something you hear everywhere, the glottal stops. But yes it's more natural to Scottish people to say "a shot" on something rather than a turn or a go.

Scots is a language and is recognised by UNESCO as such.

[quote TheWoleb]@discombobulatedonion

You know that Scots is a whole language, yes?

Which other languages infuriate you? Or is it just the Scottish you dont like having a language, culture and history of their own?[/quote]
Someone's getting offended - Yes I know it's a whole language. As I said, I know I say things that piss people off and that's perfectly fine by me. It's fine to be pissed off about something that isn't appealing to someone. No, I don't voice it in my everyday life and actually, I think Scotland is a fucking beautiful place and I love the accent and would happily visit there more often if I could afford the travel there. But I can still dislike the dialect.

I have just moved to Manchester and mispronounce a lot of the place names here. I'm originally from Up North and say things like "ginnel", "mafting", "bread cake" and I piss people off by saying things like that and it's fine by me. I'm not asking anyone to change how they speak.

For me, an injection via a hypodermic needle is a jab as it accurately describes both the motion and the force necessary to administer it.

But all my Scottish friends and relatives would fervently disagree. Vive la difference.

@KingsleyShacklebolt

You are completely wrong.

It is a language. It is recognised as a language.

It was used predominantly in the lowlands.

Are you like Boris and the English government, who refuse to recognise British Sign Language as an official language in this country?

"Vive la difference." Exactly @thing47! How dull it would be if we all spoke the same language.

Doesn't matter. If you find words with two syllables in a bit difficult then you've got bigger problems to solve

Yup, that's me, Boris in disguise.

I don't speak "Scots", nobody I know speaks "Scots", I don't agree with the government wasting money "translating" documents into "Scots".

I also don't care who recognises it as a language or otherwise, to be honest.

I’m Scottish and like every other Scottish person I know say jag.

I’m Scottish but live in England. I refer to it as a jab when speaking to anyone at work/school/neighbours, but jag when I’m chatting to my (Scottish) relatives on the phone. Practically bilingual!