Why are people referring to the vaccine as a jag?

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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.

Bang goes my theory then!

I didn’t hear it growing up much (Scottish Borders). Maybe I was posh 😁

I’m from north east Scotland too, don’t remember it being used either but then has been a long time since I was living there. My mum is English & 3 of 4 grandparents so she would not have said it. However I now live in central Scotland and work in the west of Scotland so hear it all the time - and probably use it too!! (Nurse) love jaggy great word.

As for salt and vinegar on chips definitely none of that runny yucky sauce - I went to university in edinburgh and boyfriend is from edinburgh so has a bottle of it in his house ‘just in case’ 😂

That must be it @Roonerspismed... I'm from the central belt originally. Must just be us ruffians that say it 🙄🤣

I'm Aberdeen born and would never use jag in place of jab. So agree it's not commonplace in the NE.

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.

Yes, there's an (I hope) apocryphal tale about an Anaesthetist saying to a young girl pre-termination "Just a little prick, a bit like the one that got you in here"

I usually say look away now if you need to.

I didn’t hear it growing up much (Scottish Borders). Maybe I was posh 😁

I'm an edinburger raised by a fifer and a dundonian who now works in the borders and I feel like they have enough words without throwing JAGGY into the mix hahaha

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

It's not even Anglo-centric, but narrower than that...a small hub of what is deemed acceptable language, probably down south, but not sure where exactly. We frequently get sneery posts about regional English dialect. Don't mention Mom, Mam, high school and other assorted terminology

Central Scotland here, I had a Indian doctor tell me once that I would feel a wee jag!
I also had a fight with a jaggy tree the other day while walking the dog.

Scottish newsreader tonight said jag (quite correctly ) instead of vaccination and I immediately thought of this thread

Jag, jab, whatever. What bothers me more is people saying they are "called up" for it like it is a draft.