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.

Crikey this brings back memories!
I hated a jaggy jumper!

Now I'm wondering where "jab" comes from.

Wait... what's the Billy Connolly thing about bonnets then?

Mind the jaggy nettles!

A cry of mothers everywhere on the west coast of Scotland when out on a country walk! and then you use a docken leaf to soothe the inevitable jag!

Jag makes perfect sense to describe something that feels jaggy.
Jab doesn't.

I'm Scottish so may not be impartial

to jab your finger into someone's arm, is to poke it, so like an injection.
i think it sounds less violent than jag, which suggests a jagged edge, like a zombie knife.
but then i'd never heard of jag for an injection until recently, so it's all what you are used to.
whatever it's called, go get it. i've had both. slight side effects after first, nothing after second. it's all good, and we're so lucky that they devised it so soon and got it to us.
keep well.

but in my world at least, a jag is a car.

That's a Jaguar.

HTH

@Ginmakesitallok

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

Don't forget jaggy nettles

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

Am I the only one who got threatened with the Jaggy Jumper Home? 😂 My gran told me the kids who weren't in bed at a set time went there. Can confirm I had a happy childhood 😂

@justaweeone

Crikey this brings back memories! I hated a jaggy jumper!

Wait! What?! Naive southerner here. I was following until now!

Is a jaggy jumper just a scratch jumper?

“Am I the only one who got threatened with the Jaggy Jumper Home? 😂 My gran told me the kids who weren't in bed at a set time went there. Can confirm I had a happy childhood 😂“

The jaggy jumper home was exactly why I said jumpers, lol

The jaggy jumper home was exactly why I said jumpers, lol

Ahhh okay that's good then 😂 I had a sinking feeling when you mentioned the Jumpers without the Home that I was the only one lol.

As a side note and back to the point of this thread I find "jab" just as jarring as op finds "jag". Or the opposite or jarring I suppose. It's like changing jarring to jaffing. It's nowhere near violent enough of a sound to describe injections, nettles, and jumper homes.

What child would be scared of jabby nettles or feel sufficiently threatened by a jabby jumper home? Jobby jumper home, maybe. 😂 but not Jabby.

Yep its Scottish. Even the teachers would say it was Jag day. If you were kids and you got cut by a bramble bush or rose thorn you'd say you got jagged.

purple
Jaggy Bonnet is a reference to the Crown of Thorns in the Crucifixion sketch.

I thought jab was just the posh version of jag, we’ve always called it a jag but had no idea it was a Scottish thing but would make perfect sense as we have a strong Scottish heritage so use lots of Scottish words and phrases despite not living in Scotland.

Have you never waded through the jaggy nettles when you were a kid?

I knew jag, but always found it a bit weird. You Scots need better needles; they do ever such thin ones these days, you don't know you're done.

Brambles are spiky and scratch, not jabby. Nettles are also not jabby, they are "sting-y", like wasps. For my toddler I use "sharp scratch" like brambles for nettles because he's been stuck in brambles many times by not yet been stung by nettles. Funnily enough, phlebotomists like to warn of a sharp scratch, is that the same in Scotland or do they tell you that you'll feel a jag?

I haven't heard of these jumper homes and they sound frightening. A Scottish friend of my grandmother once knitted socks for my dad that felt like someone embedded a load of pins in them. They also filled with water when left on the line. I'm imagining being forced to wear that as scratchy jumpers in a freezing blackhouse...

It’s only a jag in some parts of Scotland. Always been jab to me.
Jabby nettles, thistles etc too.

Surely jag makes more sense than jab?

@DumplingsAndStew

but in my world at least, a jag is a car.

That's a Jaguar.

HTH

Don't be so sneering. Jag is a common abbreviation of Jaguar cars.

I’d picked up that jag was the Scottish way of what I’d call a jab but it’s been interesting reading the examples around that on this thread and to put it in context. Amazing how much language variation there is between the different parts of the UK.

Lot of sneeriness here. I've lived in Scotland but never come across jag before in this context.

Jab is from the action, no? Like when you jab someone with your fist in boxing

That's interesting. I never heard of it (I'm Irish).
I read someone's tweet earlier complaining of feeling ill after the second jag and I thought it was a typo!

@Tumbleweed101

I’d picked up that jag was the Scottish way of what I’d call a jab but it’s been interesting reading the examples around that on this thread and to put it in context. Amazing how much language variation there is between the different parts of the UK.

This! I picked this up a few years ago (from MN) but had never heard the jaggy things explanation!

I've heard my vets refer to them as jags, too- not obviously Scottish either. "Can you give her a jag of calcium' could be misunderstood I guess if you'd not heard it before 😂

Amazing how much language variation there is between the different parts of the UK.

That'll be because Scots is a different language to English.