Help end medical misogyny. Sign our petition.

Help end medical misogyny.
Sign our petition.

Sign the petition

Please or to access all these features

Pedants' corner

vaccination jabs or jags?

8 replies

WinkyWinkola · 10/03/2010 20:39

Or is a regional variation? I can't think why it would be "jags" though.

OP posts:
jkklpu · 10/03/2010 20:41

I say jags - it's Scottish because a jag is a spike or anything sharp, eg Partick Thistle's nicknames is "the Jags" because thistles are prickly

MinnieMummy · 10/03/2010 20:52

Definitely jab.

Jag I would use as in 'crying jag'.

TrillianAstra · 10/03/2010 20:54

Jab. They jab you with a needle.

PixieOnaLeaf · 10/03/2010 20:56

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

poppyknot · 10/03/2010 20:58

Agree with jkkplu. It's a Scotticism. Only heard about jabs when I moved to London.......

AMumInScotland · 10/03/2010 21:04

Yup - definitely jags up here, as jkklpu says - like thorns and thistles.

thehillsarealive · 11/03/2010 10:41

jags - although my DC (english) think I am talking about a car.

injections is how it is described around here.

trixymalixy · 16/03/2010 20:57

jags as i am also scottish.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread