Is it “jab” or “jag” ?

[Ninbuscl]

I always said jab but notice people occasionally saying jag. At first I thought these people had got it “wrong” accidentally but I hear the newsreaders seem to switch between jab and jag. Is it a regional thing?

I do realise there are more important issues to be discussing today !

Well you learn something new everyday.

@midnightstar66

Jag = injection in Scotland. Also jaggy nettles.

And not forgetting the jaggy jumper home where you'd be sent if you misbehaved.

Jag doesn't make sense to me. Something jagged isn't something I'd want near my skin.

But a jab or injection near your skin is something you'd be excited about?

As in jabbed with a smooth needle? Can't wait man jagged metal, nope.

To be clear, I don't give a toss who calls it what. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Jaggy means spikey as opposed to jagged really. Needles by their very nature are spikey - they are jaggy and will jag (spike) you. It wouldn't mean they are serrated/jagged - HTH 😆

Also NE Scotland, we say Jab, and we also say jab by nettles, thistles etc.

I think though that the majority of people that use the word jab for injection wouldn't be jabbed by a nettle - they'd be stung?!

wow. I'm English/Welsh and never heard jag.

It is a bit fucking annoying to have people faux naively saying oh I don't understand why this word is used. Yes it is used in this way, no one is asking you to switch forthwith, fgs.

@midnightstar66

Jaggy means spikey as opposed to jagged really. Needles by their very nature are spikey - they are jaggy and will jag (spike) you. It wouldn't mean they are serrated/jagged - HTH 😆

It doesn't and it's stung by nettles.

We would be boring if all the same.

It's an injection to me.

Definitely a jag when I was in Scotland.

I didn't say on thought everyone would be the same 😆. I was explaining why jag in the Scottish dialect in the context of injection would not mean serrated or jagged. If you still don't understand I don't know how else to explain it. I said I expected it to be stung by nettles 🤷🏼‍♀️

Scottish DH says "jab". As do I (English)
Actually, we'd both use "vaccination" for preference.

In German you get burnt by nettles because the sensation of sting uses the same word as burn.

I don't find it that weird that jaggy can mean spiky/stingy as well as a sharp/jagged edge, even though the sharpness of a jagged edge and a point are a bit different in the language I use.

Isn't it fascinating? I find this kind of language stuff and what gets lumped together or separated out really interesting.

Jag always for me, North scotland

Scottish DH says "jab". As do I (English)
Actually, we'd both use "vaccination" for preference.

People tend to change a lot of the dialect when they live with others that use a different one. I've lived all over the uk and abroad and therefore the words I use are a real mixed bag. I don't actually use jag myself I'd say injection, although tbh it depends who I'm speaking to, but I am very familiar with the word and the meaning. I'd be surprised if your dh isn't too. (Unless he's from the NE as from this thread there seems to be a small bubble there who have never heard of it either)

I am very familiar with the word and the meaning. I'd be surprised if your dh isn't too.

Nope, he's no idea! (Not from the NE either!)

Thanks for asking this question, OP, I've always wondered where 'jag' came from! Another of life's mysteries solved. :D

Jaggy means prickly or spikey in Scots.

Me, faux-innocently dropping a bomb into the thread: Now, is it jab or jag with a short A like bath, or a long A like barth?

Next poster, disingenuously: What? There’s no R in bath, unless you’re a pirate.

Know-it-all, loftily: There are rhotic and non-rhotic accents

Next poster, rudely: This post has been removed by MNHQ

Username followed-by-a-numberly:

::Thread fills up with 40 pages of class warfare, long-held grudges, trolls and villains::

I'm London/Surrey borders. The only Jags we have round here are rather fancy cars.

Bath is said with a short a here the same as jab or jag

And then we can do "What is a bunker?"

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I used to sit at my gran's bunker to eat my dinner (in the middle of the day). I'd sometimes have a bridie, or a mealie pudding maybe.

Lovely memories
@FlibbertyGiblets

It’s jab as in you get jabbed. They do say jag in Scotland though which makes no sense 😂

Jab - Yorkshire

"It’s jab as in you get jabbed. They do say jag in Scotland though which makes no sense 😂"

A jab is also a punch. No one is punched by a needle if you want to start the "doesn't make sense! XD XD" stuff.

Jag and jaggy are one of the most common/ less obscure words like jobby and bairn that even if you and your family don't speak scots dialect that and you live in a posh area, you'd be hard pressed to get through school and teenage years without coming across them and at least knowing what they mean unless you never venture far. Like @BertieBotts I find it fascinating and think we have some fantastic words 😆.

Jag in my corner of Yorkshire
Jab in south London when I was growing up