Recently my girlfriend was talking about games she played as a child and mentioned the game ‘tag’. Right away she apologised, saying that she had meant to say ‘tig’.
I said that she was correct the first time when she said ‘tag’.
Both are probably interchangable but I had never heard of ‘tig’ before she mentioned it and was wondering if it was a local expression of hers (Northern England) or if I’m the outcast with my ‘tag’ (Ireland).
I wouldn’t normally post computer-type questions in GQ but goggle failed me…
What I need is a bandwidth monitor for windows that displays the network traffic not by application but by port number. I’ve downloaded several likely programs but no luck so far.
Has anyone ever heard of such an app?
Oh my God !
Hard to believe I hit ‘Reply to Thread’ rather than ‘New Thread’ 
Must get it fixed…
I remember playing ‘tig’ at an all-English infants school in cyprus, then, when we returned to the UK, playing ‘tag’ at primary school and that nobody seemed to have heard of ‘tig’. I suspect it is a regional thing and that the convention in the school in Cyprus had simply been imported from a different part of the UK.
We played ‘catches’.
For me, in the 60’s and 70’s in southern england, it was called ‘It’.
I’m from Chesterfield, Derbyshire in the east midlands. I think it was either tig or tiggy in my neck of the woods. That would have been in the 90s and possibly a bit of the late 80s.
I’m in the States, and until I read this thread I had never heard of any name but “tag.” It always made sense, as the idea was to tag people.
Indeed and was the point I made to my g/f but she’s sticking with tig
Dictionary.com says Tig? - See ‘Tag’ 
I’m from North West England. Everyone I know refers to it as tig, I’ve neevr heard anyone refer to it as tag.
I’m from the midwest US and I’ve never heard of anything but Tag.
New Zealand here. We always called it tiggy.
Another New Zealander here, we always called it “tag” or “it” as in, you’re “it”.
I must be from a more cultured part of the country :).
The earliest use of tag to mean a child’s game is cited in the OED from 1738(in England). Tig is cited as the game from only 1816. But tig to mean a “light touch or pat” is cited from 1721.
Why tag evolved into the only term pretty much used in the US is mysterious.
Another one for tiggy here. I grew up in Melbourne, Australia.
Probably one of those funny places down South 
You don’t deny that it is more cultured down there then? :dubious:
Oh I deny it. I just know where the deluded ones are from
So far it’s Northern Brits and Northern Kiwi’s who use ‘tig’ Vs the Rest of the World who say ‘tag’.
Is that right?
Tag in California.
Haj