I’m hating on the word ‘ cuppa ‘.

[hattie43]

A Facebook friend is really giving me the ick over her constant use of the word ‘ cuppa ‘ . I have developed an unreasonable hatred of it .

who fancies coming over for a cuppa
where’s the best place in town for a cuppa
I drink at least 6 cuppa’s a day
how do you take your cuppa

Its cup of tea

Ahhh just ahhh

Regional dialect. Don’t visit Scotland if it winds you up that much.

One of the meanings of the verb ‘to get’ is ‘to receive’. That’s the sense in which it’s used in this context.

As long as someone says please, I don’t see what’s wrong with them asking if they can receive (get) a cup of coffee in a cafe, for example 🤷‍♀️

Then you'll know it's perfectly normal, widespread, and not incorrect for up here.

People who go to Scotland and object to the way people there speak, might even be a bit irritating.

@Ironingablueshirt has explained the history of the word already - I still don't have to like it.

@Mossey55 Fur baby, fur baby, fur baby

That one's for you, mate. 😁

Ha ha ha thanks !

Just checked that my feeling that cuppa is new is correct.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cuppa&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

It always grates when someone writing something with an historical setting inserts 'cuppa' into a 1940s-60s situation when it wouldn't have been in common currency.

No of course you don't have to like it! It's just part of our normal way of speaking and not incorrect at all. It's like saying 'I loathe outwith' or any other random part of our everyday speech.

Although youse is pretty bad...!