Why are people referring to the vaccine as a jag?

[PurpleWh1teGreen]

And am I missing something?

Have they misheard jab or is there an actual rational explanation?

I find the phrase quite jarring - which I know it's totally my issue, but in my world at least, a jag is a car. Not an injection.

Injections are known as jags in Scotland.

I believe it's Scottish. HTH.

My parents both call it this and they are Scottish. When I taught in Scotland the children called it a jag too. Never heard in England though

It's a common phrase in Scotland.

Jag is Scottish term for jab

It's a Scottish thing, not a mishearing thing.

It's a regional variation. In Scotland we call spiky things jaggy and also call injections jags, its not new, its a shame it irritates you but maybe you need to work on being more tolerant of linguistic diversity?

Ooh, didn't know that & it makes sense - one of the people who was talking about Jags happens to be from Glasgow. Thanks all, gotta love Mumsnet sometimes for a quick answer.

Does anyone know where it originates ? I'd be interested to find out.

Definitely Scottish, I've always said jag.

Have they misheard jab or is there an actual rational explanation?

The dictionary is your friend.

@PurpleWh1teGreen

Ooh, didn't know that & it makes sense - one of the people who was talking about Jags happens to be from Glasgow. Thanks all, gotta love Mumsnet sometimes for a quick answer.

Does anyone know where it originates ? I'd be interested to find out.

Google is your friend here, there are a couple of explanations.

It's called a "jag" because needles are jaggy. Hope that helps xx

I've wondered this too but never got around to looking it up so I'm glad you asked OP. A little mystery solved for me

Other jaggy things include barbed wire, jaggy nails and jaggy bushes.

Have they misheard jab or is there an actual rational explanation?
So your first thought is people have misheard rather than not everyone uses the same terminology?

in my world at least, a jag is a car. Not an injection
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@Ginmakesitallok

Other jaggy things include barbed wire, jaggy nails and jaggy bushes.

Love it! That makes sense now

It’s funny but pre-covid I had never heard of ‘jab’. Even now it sounds so wrong.

It is, and always will be, a jag to me

The bad jaggies! Or could also be Partick Thistle F.C.....

Glad to have been of help.

Came on to say what pretty much everyone else said... I've seen this mentioned a few times now and hadn't considered that Jag wasn't a widely used term because we've always used it!

Because its jaggy...and it jags you! Hence it's a jag lol.

@Ginmakesitallok

Other jaggy things include barbed wire, jaggy nails and jaggy bushes.

And bonnets, if you’re Billy Connolly

2. A prick with a sharp instrument or thorn, a sharp blow, a prod

The Scots dictionary says the roots of the word jag go back to around 1800.

@Ginmakesitallok

Other jaggy things include barbed wire, jaggy nails and jaggy bushes.

And jumpers...