Jab vs Vaccination vs shot
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@GMF Totally could be, I was unaware of that for sure. I guess this poll is definitely geared more toward the US since that's where I'm from.
Shot is definitely more a US thing and not used in the UK. Really odd you feel someone using jab is less educated when it is literally jabbing a needle into you and not "shooting"
@Megan like I said, I'm aware there's no true correlation. However, I do think it comes from all of the antivax rhetoric in the US around the covid vaccines. I had literally never heard of it referred to as a jab before the antivax movement. There's obviously going to be differences in different countries. The UK and the US have many words we share that mean completely opposite things...fanny for example.
You say shot and I think alcohol (UK)
@Megan also, you "shoot" the vaccination into the arm out of the syringe, I believe that's where shot comes from.
I think most of the time using jab comes from social media and trying not to get filtered by algorithms and fact checkers. Other platforms very much do not like the words vaccine and shot so jab doesn’t flag them.
@Katelyn that also makes complete sense, hadn't thought about it in that context either!
When their babies, I say there getting there vaccines and then as they get bigger I just call them their jabs. Cause well, they are getting jabbed. I’d never call it a shot.. shot is literally an alcoholic drink in uk hahah :)
@Libby a shot is also alcohol in the US lol I don't know why we double up meaning on so many words but that's definitely an american thing!
I’m from the US and live in the UK so definitely not because in the U.S. we use ‘shot’ and in the UK we use ‘jab’ 🤣 (known as vaccinations in both)
I think jab is the commonly used word in the UK just fyi.