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24-06-2021, 05:12 PM
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Was just reading a bit in a newspaper about the numbers and age groups getting their "jabs" which made me wonder why do the use the word jab instead of jag, is it the government trying to make the injections sound better, or less scary than jag 
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Wasn't there a politician named "two jags"?
Jag isn't a word we use for vaccinations here. "Jab" sounds quite vicious and not half as funny as the little pr*ck that the nurses have been told not to say. 
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"Jab" doesn't seem to be a particularly new expression for a vaccine in South Yorkshire - I was definitely living in fear of my TB jab almost 30 years ago! I've not heard any of my old folk refer to them as "jags" either (and it does come up as a regular topic of conversation in my line of work!).
"Two Jags" was John Prescott, but didn't it get changed to "Two Jabs" after the rumble in Rhyl?
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Think jag is typically Scottish Spec.
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(24-06-2021, 08:25 PM)Jay Wrote: Think jag is typically Scottish Spec.
You might be right Jay, but a more accurate word for what you get
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25-06-2021, 10:37 AM
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I'd never heard of the word jag until recently! Always jab/injection here. I thought it was a typo 
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Me too Scarlet I also thought it was a typo.
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^^^Count me in with that too. I get a jag in my tights not in my arm , or maybe as a present from a sugar daddy years ago. In fact when I told my boss I wanted an XK8 for my Christmas present, he said OK. I got one too in BRG on a wooden plinth about 10" long
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(24-06-2021, 08:19 PM)Proserpina Wrote: "Jab" doesn't seem to be a particularly new expression for a vaccine in South Yorkshire - I was definitely living in fear of my TB jab almost 30 years ago! I've not heard any of my old folk refer to them as "jags" either (and it does come up as a regular topic of conversation in my line of work!).
"Two Jags" was John Prescott, but didn't it get changed to "Two Jabs" after the rumble in Rhyl?
Thats what a jab is to me Proserpina, a short fast punch with a fist, a jag is something you get from the likes of a thorn or a skelf or again a needle, such as the instrument used for injections
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25-06-2021, 10:22 PM
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