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

[quote shouldistop]@OuiOuiBonjour actually, that is the other way round. The Scots didn't used to celebrate Christmas at all. [/quote]
Since when 😂😂

It wasn't a public holiday here until 1958, Hogmanay was the bigger deal.

More info here, it's quite interesting.

blog.historicenvironment.scot/2016/12/timeline-christmas-scotland/

My mum was born in 1956 and she said as a child it wasn't common to receive Christmas gifts (maybe chocolate and satsumas) you were more likely to get gifts from wider family on Hogmanay when there was a big celebration.

My English GP used to call it a "Stab".

"While you're here, would you like to be stabbed?"

"excuse me?"

"Flu...you're on the list...I can stab you if you'd like? Or stab you later? I'd promise I'll be gentle but I like stabbing people."

"Erm...yes now is fine, thanks."

"You'll feel a little prick ......There we go. All done until I get to stab you again next year."

All tongue in cheek and utterly creepy. He left after three years thank goodness. He'd upgraded his routine, to "you'll feel a little prick. Does the job just as well as a big prick but less painful ."

My granny certainly celebrated it as a child I’ve seen the photos

[quote shouldistop]@OuiOuiBonjour actually, that is the other way round. The Scots didn't used to celebrate Christmas at all. [/quote]
It was tongue in cheek and a reference to the "why is everybody saying Santa now instead of Father Christmas?! We aren't American!" threads and the hundreds of Scots posters who inevitably reply, "We've always said Santa". It's always been Santa in our family but he didn't pay a visit until the end of the 60s! My Mum didn't ever get presents from him. Christmas was all about Christ and the festivities were all about Hogmanay.

@OuiOuiBonjour ah ok, I get you yes, it's Santa here too.

@Suitcaseseverywhere that's unusual. People would go to church and maybe have a family meal (if they weren't at work) but the gifts and festivities were at Hogmanay.

I've never heard of a jag before!

I said celebrated Christmas - church, family meal, stocking - unless you think that isn’t celebrating Christmas?

It’s a vaccination.

@JasonMomoasgirlfriend

Vaccine.

Jab or Jag just sounds stupid to me.

Well if you're going to be like that about it, it should be inoculation as I think vaccine only technically applies to cowpox

I do find "jag" a bit weird as needles are not jaggy, they are pointy. But as a pp on the first page said - life's rich tapestry!

Oh and my family were staunch Catholics in a very Catholic village so Christmas was most definitely celebrated...it was just not all about presents from Santa. I grew up hearing all about walking through the snow to Midnight Mass, singing Carols with lanterns in hand and making paper chains for the tree, putting the crib up etc from my grandparents' childhood memories. My grandad was born in the early 1900s.

@OuiOuiBonjour

Oh and my family were staunch Catholics in a very Catholic village so Christmas was most definitely celebrated...it was just not all about presents from Santa. I grew up hearing all about walking through the snow to Midnight Mass, singing Carols with lanterns in hand and making paper chains for the tree, putting the crib up etc from my grandparents' childhood memories. My grandad was born in the early 1900s.

Yup. Same for my gran. Carol services, carol singing, midnight mass, paper chains (which he did with us as children), Christmas tree with candles on it

She got a stocking always with a satsuma and some Pencils and new stockings/tights (woollen!!)

*she

My Mum and her siblings got a stocking but not from Santa, from their parents. And it just had nuts, fruit, a comic etc in. They'd all get new clothes for church if there was money. They didn't get gifts at Hogmanay but it was more of a party. I'm led to believe their wealthier friends received Christmas gifts (even if just a doll or toy car). My Granny often spoke of getting a spinning top or a book for Christmas and "being delighted by that" but she was unhappy at being always served Chicken for Christmas Dinner she didn't care for poultry.

Yup. Same for my gran. Carol services, carol singing, midnight mass, paper chains (which he did with us as children), Christmas tree with candles on it

She got a stocking always with a satsuma and some Pencils and new stockings/tights (woollen!!)

So it was either common practice or we are cousins lol!

Jab. I am English (northern)
My Scottish DH also says jab.

I'm in Australia and we just call it the covid needle/covid vaccine or covid jab. A jag is a car here! I personally call it a covid needle. I'd say, I'm off to the Dr to get my Hep B needle/the dog is due to get his needles at the vet.

Jag said by everyone I know (rural Northern Ireland)

My family always celebrated Christmss here in Scotland, but we were a family of Irish Catholic immigrants. They took the day off as an unpaid holiday until it eventually became a public holiday in 1958. We originally said Santy Claus, from St Nicholas. It evolved to become Santa Claus. Nobody I knew said Father Christmas.

Halloween was also celebrated widely.

We also say jag, obviously