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To: Jan_Sobieski

“Jab”, huh?

I don’t think normal people call it that.
Who says that?

Anybody who calls getting a shot a “Jab” is gay or has something wrong with them.


3 posted on 05/21/2021 2:11:07 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jab-a-british-term-for-a-covid-19-shot-but-born-in-the-u-s-a-11617898298

As the lexicographer Jonathon Green details in “Green’s Dictionary of Slang,” “jab” began to be used by British forces in World War II to refer to inoculations against diseases like tuberculosis. Gerald Kersh, a writer who served in the British Army, used the word in his 1941 novel “They Die With Their Boots Clean”: “First time that feller got a Jab, he went out like a light.”

After the war, the British public became increasingly exposed to this meaning of “jab,” often in newspapers where it served as handy shorthand: “flu jab” is a lot punchier than “influenza vaccination,” after all. Now that “jab” has made its way back Stateside, lexicographers are taking note. Editors at Merriam-Webster are reviewing meanings of “jab” for a possible future entry: the act of inoculation (as in “jabs in arms”) as well as a dose of a vaccine (as in “I got my second jab of Moderna”). The semantic spread of the term is proving downright infectious.


7 posted on 05/21/2021 2:14:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: humblegunner

Anybody like you that doesn’t do ANYTHING with their life but hassle people on FR has a serious mental problem.

...just sayin’...


15 posted on 05/21/2021 2:23:40 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: humblegunner

People call it a jab because some of these use a really short needle that is more of a jab than a shot.

Vaccines are administered in different ways. Some are oral.

Many use jab in place of vaccine because this covid “vaccine” is not really a true vaccine.


20 posted on 05/21/2021 2:29:32 PM PDT by dforest (huh?)
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To: humblegunner

Before the covid scam some of these sites wanted you to check a box stating you support BLM. Now they are pushing vaccines, yeah right. How about a box for what STDs for have?


27 posted on 05/21/2021 2:37:01 PM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: humblegunner

42 posted on 05/21/2021 3:32:17 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: humblegunner

woke speek


48 posted on 05/21/2021 3:50:28 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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