There are many examples where the British version of a term is more felicitous than the American version. "Jab" for "injection" is not one of them. It grates o

There are many examples where the British version of a term is more felicitous than the American version. "Jab" for "injection" is not one of them. It grates on the eyeballs, or at least my eyeballs. It's as if we suddenly decided to call surgery "gashing".