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.

It’s used where I live in Ireland too, but not where I grew up.

I get an IV treatment once a month for my neuro illness. In Glasgow. Every time the nurse says "now a wee jag" as they go for the vein. Except the English nurse, who says "sharp scratch".

@MRex , no thanks, I'm a salt 'n' sauce wifie myself.

@MRex

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

Sometimes you have to read the room...

Broon sauce is for drowning your pizza crunch in

Vinegar then salt on chips

Oh I dont know. I'm partial to some chippy sauce on my chips. I do love salt and vinegar at the seaside though.

This comes to mind with the word 'jaggy'!

When we've all had our second doses we'll all be Two Jags. Like John Prescott.

@Spodge

When we've all had our second doses we'll all be Two Jags. Like John Prescott.

@MRex and there you go, patronising again that us Jocks don't "understand" a "joke". Nope you're just not funny.

I'd laugh when I've rammed that bottle of brown sauce up your twitchy arse though.

[quote Cushionsnotpillows]@MRex and there you go, patronising again that us Jocks don't "understand" a "joke". Nope you're just not funny.

I'd laugh when I've rammed that bottle of brown sauce up your twitchy arse though. [/quote]
I hope the rest of your week is as pleasant as you are @Cushionsnotpillows.

I'll stand corrected by others on the salt and vinegar, vinegar is always a good call (though chip-shop brown sauce is yummy and quite vinegary too).

Not a Scottish word but a word used in some parts of Scotland. In NE Scotland it's jab, never hear anyone here saying jag!

@fluffyugg I'm in NE Scotland and everyone I know says Jag - even my hospital Consultant!

@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 😂

It was just the jaggy jumper man who would come and get us, it's disturbing to know there is a whole home full of jaggy jumpers!

I'm Scottish but living in England and have always found 'now a sharp scratch' ridiculous. A scratch is something
on the surface. 'Now a wee jag' sits much better with me! Agree about jaggy edges etc, hadn't really realised that wasn't English usage.

Growing up on the West Coast of Scotland in the 1970s, I can confirm that all my jumpers (2) were jaggy.
It was deemed character building.
I had no idea other non jaggy jumpers were available at that time.

@MichelleScarn

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?

Many words and phrases evolve due to people mishearing them.

From Edinburgh. All injections are jags.
And yes to jaggy nettles, jumpers, brambles, jobbies, "a wee jag", etc.

@Womencanlift

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

Me too! I’m Scottish and it’s always been Jag.

Okay @EvilOnion that's interesting...maybe all these people are originally from other parts of Scotland?

www.heraldscotland.com/news/19090594.david-leask-getting-needle-whether-jag-jab/

Interesting article that states jag used in Glasgow and jab in Aberdeen

Haha this thread is great, it's never occurred to me that Southern folk don't use Jag

What about when you take your newborn for its baby jags?

Auto correct also changes jab to jag a lot

And another article from Aberdeen newspaper which uses jab...absolutely not jag up in the NE of Scotland 😄

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/vaccination-of-public-begins-to-get-under-way-in-north-east/amp/

Brilliant new word for me, never heard jag before (southern and midlands England).

I'm Scottish but living in England and have always found 'now a sharp scratch' ridiculous.

Completely agree with this, a scratch would be along the surface.

I think I would describe it as a "prick" which has probably fallen out of use due to being used as an insult synonymous with penis.

Loving the confusion over "jabby nettles" as well, we just call them stinging nettles.

And I guess jag was previously used in England and we've just been left with the phrase "jagged edge" but don't use it otherwise.

Definitely Scottish. I would argue west Scotland!

I don’t like it either but neither do I like “jab”

@Roonerspismed

Definitely Scottish. I would argue west Scotland!

I don’t like it either but neither do I like “jab”

I'm east Scotland & no one I know around here uses anything other than jag to describe an injection/vaccination.

I did use say covid vaccine the other day when talking to an English client & my inner monologue was going "you sound like a fanny" as the word came out of my mouth 🙈