Right this is a general question.
Which is right????? do you vaccinate with Jabs or Jags???
so many time I see I have given my dog Jags but I always thought with dogs and kids they were Jabs.
Which is right??????
Lea :)

> Which is right??????
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You are!  :-)  Most definitely jabs!   I thought that jags were cars.

It's jabs, don't know where jags comes from but notice it being used more and more.

That's good, I was getting confused thinking that I had always " wrongly" used jabs :)

I have just been informed that north of the border you use Jags, and south we use Jabs!!!!! have only noticed it more and more in the last year.
Sorry if I have upset anyone, I just couldnt work it out :o :o :o
For the few I saw I thought it was a slip of the tongue, until I saw quite a few saying Jags :*)
Aparently a main man in a top firm from germany call them Jags :)
`Lea :)

It's definately Jag up here :-) 

Wonder what the origin of "jag" for an injection is? Jab is obvious :)

> Wonder what the origin of "jag" for an injection is? Jab is obvious

Oh me too.... never used 'jab' myself even... I love the way the english language is constantly evolving, but surely Jag is a corruption of Jab?
Do you remember the days when people spoke about getting their cats 'doctored' or even 'dressed'? (the latter always made me think of a ginger tom in a pink tutu hahaha).

Jab here too.........I always frown when I see Jag, haven't a clue where it came from.

> haven't a clue where it came from

North of the border.

Even the most eloquent speaker in Scotland will call it " Having his jags"..... dogs and children alike.

Jabs down south.

Just looked at a 1948 Chamber Dictionary... Jag is Scottish colloquial for  "prick" :-)

Up here, Jab would be  a poke or prod with finger, or a punch
Jag is a prick, pricked by a nettle, pricked with a needle..  

Thus endeth today's lesson :-) :-)

Thanks, see never too old to learn ;0)

Thank you Kayc you learn something everyday I always thought it was american english.
Maybe we should start a threard on colloquillisms (sp) ?

Ahhh so it's a Scottish thing then?  I'm in the north west and have only seen jag being used in the last couple of years quite frequently and must admit that I thought people were getting mixed up LOL!

I say Jags :-D :-D but even for the human variety :-)

You often hear people say " watch the jaggy bush" :-D  or " that was jaggy"

Thistles are jaggy hence Partick Thistle football team is nicknamed the Jags. Always been jags in Scotland but must admit I tend to say injections :-)

My Mum and Dad (Scots) have always said jags - makes sense to me considering they are jaggy :-D

Almost a different subject but ...

I always name puppies after plants, shrubs or trees. I don't use the names like woodsage but try to find the local names for these plants and have had some lovely names as a result. Wood sage by the way is called Master of the Wood in some places which I think is great for a gundog. Others I like are names like Jack by the Hedge or how about water violet otherwise known as the bog bean.

When i have seen jags, I have always thought it was a typo. See you learn something everyday.

> Just looked at a 1948 Chamber Dictionary... Jag is Scottish colloquial for  "prick" :-)
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Several jags walking around Scottish streets then.

I actually say boosters or injections.

Jab as in to 'jab' someone ie with the needle. Possibly just a misconception of the right word, like all the 'dire rears' and 'speyed' or 'spaded' bitches!

> When i have seen jags, I have always thought it was a typo. See you learn something everyday.

Ditto that :)

I love how we learn something new about our language & each others slang words through champdogs

I usually say vaccinations or in writing will write vaccs.

It depends on who I am talking to , certainly written it would be Vaccinations :-)

LOL ChristineW, same in the streets of Manchester!