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.

I love language and dialects. We lived in the North East of England when I was a kid and my parents (not Scottish) used to get the Sunday Post. I learned many Scottishisms from Oor Wullie and the Broons! The resident doctor problem page was always taking about jags.

@Heyha

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 😂

Where did your vet study? If they went to Glasgow or Edinburgh that might explain them picking up Scottish phrases.

@tabulahrasa

“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

It's the home with jaggy jerseys here in Fife... I'm 42 & my mum still threatens me with it

@tabulahrasa

“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

Jaggy jumper home was a threat from my childhood 😂 I'm not even bloody Scottish!

@Northernsoullover

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

The thread was sneering from the outset. Instead of a simple Internet search, the OP posted to sneer at those they figured were just too thick to understand the real word, and instead "misheard" jab 🙄

Blows my mind that people in the U.K. are so Anglo-centric.

Seriously, I have googled and I still have no idea what a jaggy jumper is

@Stevenage689

Seriously, I have googled and I still have no idea what a jaggy jumper is

A jumper knitted from jaggy arse wool. (A very itchy sweater)

It’s Scottish as others have said although I’m Scottish and don’t like it either.

But having said that I do refer to Jaggy nettles and call Partick Thistle the Jags

@Stevenage689

Seriously, I have googled and I still have no idea what a jaggy jumper is

It’s a jumper that’s jaggy... like made from scratchy wool.

@Snakebyte

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

Me too!!

Jag makes more sense to me than jab. To me a jab is a punch or a scathing comment.

We used to call the children's home the jaggy jumper house when we were wee because the jumpers appeared to have been made from a material akin to steel wool.

Oh sorry I hadn't read the original comment about the jaggy jumper home.

Glad it wasn't just us that got threatened with it 😅

It's Scottish, simply an informal word in the same way 'jab' is informal for 'vaccination'.

@MRex yes we do have the same thin needles. Yes they say you may feel a sharp scratch before an injection.

We have running water and electricity too up here in the tartan wilds, amazing huh? Some of us can even read and write.

In the words of Chandler Bing, could you BE any more patronising.

@MRex

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...

We have the exact same needles.

You’d not need to say all that sharp scratch stuff if you just used the word jaggy...why use a whole sentence when there’s a perfectly good word?

English is missing a whole load of useful words that appear in Scots, it’s a shame, you should invent better words.

Oh and jaggy jumper homes are supposed to be scary, otherwise it’d be a rubbish threat, they’re also not real.

Oh dear, some of you don't understand a very light joke. Brown sauce with those chips?

Never heard that but i could figure it out!

I'd not heard this but would have just assumed if I saw it written down that it was a typo. Makes perfect sense though.

No mention yet of jaggy jobbies?

ie the discomfort when one has piles or has been constipated and attempts to pass a stool and it hurts ....!

or should i say

Jaggy Jobbies? That just has to be used on a Bristol Stool Chart when the opportunity arises.

@winched

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 😂

Are you a Fifer? My Kirkcaldy-dwelling DIL mentioned the Jaggy Jumper School to my DS a wee while ago, he asked if I'd ever threatened him with it! (Well no, son, you'd probably have remembered.)

Lol at the number of people trying to explain the word "jag" by using the word "jaggy".

I'd worked out what a jag was but I'd never heard the term jaggy so I didn't know where it came from. It means spiky, pointy, sharp, scratchy, itchy, prickly, stinging, barbed etc., yes?

I guess I'd used jagged for something with a rough sharp edge though.