wag?

[has]

How can a footballer have a WIFE & a GIRLFRIEND? Surely it should be a Wife OR a Girlfriend.

[jno]

it's not a twerp, it's a twit. Only it isn't that either...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020329.htm l

[Jugglering]

Hehe, I always thought that WAG stood for Wives and Girlfriends... a sort of generic term for (straight) footiemen's partners...

[amycope00]

It can't be Wife OR Girlfriend because then the initals would be *** and that is politically incorrect. I think this point was raised on QI not so long ago....?

[has]

Thank you amycope00, you understood me then !!

[amycope00]

Only came on here to get the answer to a crossword question and now I am addicted! Ought to have a support group. AnswerBank Anonymous. ABA. Or is that taken?

[bushbaby_de]

the phrase was coined during the world cup when the newspapers wanted to comment on the collective behaviour of the women the footballers took abroad with them - they called them footballers wives and girlfriends, hence footballers WAGs for short. What is really annoying me, as a stickler for correct language usage, is the newspapers now just calling them WAGs and not footballers WAGs, or saying someone is a WAG - as you noted in your original question this isn't possible!!