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'I thought I was going to die' - Woman calls for tighter weight-loss jabs checks (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[โ€“] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The British have always called them jabs. You're looking at BBC. Shots is American and has never been used here.

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Pre COVID the BBC was one of my top two news sources and I never noticed the word being used until the anti vaxxers in the states started calling the COVID vaccine "the jab."

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 8 months ago

    It's not entirely a coincidence. Many of the "US anti-vaxxers" were foreign operatives that learned UK English. That included (among other things) slang terms like jab.

    In the context of the US, "the jab" stands out in a way that never did in the UK. Once you see it, it's hard to unsee.

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