nasal spray flu shot

[Benjamin Barrett]

What should it properly be called? I'd call it a shot not because I
think it's an inoculation, but because I lack a better word that
people including me understand...BB

On Oct 25, 2007, at 3:17 PM, James Harbeck wrote:

> Poster:       James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
>
>
> U.S. FDA OKs nasal spray flu shot for very young
> http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071024/
> nasal_spray_071024/20071024?hub=Health
>
> Evidently "flu shot" has, at least for some users, broadened beyond
> the "injection" sense of "shot" that I still think of it as having.
> Perhaps this is under the influence of other non-injection uses of
> "shot", of which there are of course several.

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