AIBU to find the word 'cuppa' REALLY IRRITATING?

[BlancheDuBois2]

Ok, so I'm definitely overreacting here, but whenever anyone asks me if I want a 'cuppa' I cringe inside. What's wrong with using real words? Like tea? Or Coffee? Or cup of?

I'm aware that people as grumpy as this don't usually get asked if they'd like a drink of any description, so I should count myself lucky that some people in my office still like me - but everytime anyone utters the word, I want to wince.

I don't know what hideous childhood 'cuppa' experience has scarred me to this extent - but am I alone? Does anyone else want to cause harm to a colleague when they're just being perfectly friendly and offering to make me a tea/coffee.

Having re read this, I almost want to award myself a for being such a twat. I should probably just go home and have some , shouldn't I?

Just going to add "buggy" to the list. Makes me grimace, horrible word. It's a 'pram'. Pushchair is almost as awful!

I work in a nursery where a mum leaves her pram sometimes, and when I hear all the adults saying "she needs her buggy!" - almost sends me over the edge.

Only me?!

Surely it should be 'motion lotion'?

Not a jury in the land would convict you over a cup of wet connected crime.

Me 'Where's John?'
Him 'He's not coming, he has a bad tummy'
Me 'Are you even a doctor?!'

He is in fact a consultant gastroenterologist.

Also, does anyone actually say 'adore' in real life - about shoes etc?

Makes me nauseated

Gerbo no, sorry. A pram is just one of those big oldfashioned things a baby goes in like the Silver Cross ones and the ones everyone used when I was a baby in the 70s.
Not that I actually care! But I wouldn't use pram to describe a fold-up buggy or stroller - it would be the wrong word to me.

This thread is very troubling for me.

Get ready to have your toes curl people...Im currently pregnant and had suspected water breakage so had to go to local maternity unit, no room in labour ward so I was shoved in the postnatal ward with mums and their babies. The gobshite woman in the next bed was talking about going home and kept referring to how she was gonna get her baby's "car chair" up to the hospital . She must have said it 50 times to various people. Car SEAT!! It's a car seat!!! Car chair indeed 😠

Love this thread! Only because I hate abbreviations like this! Like minded people unite against the twee abbreviating/re-naming of things!!!

JUST USE THE PROPER WORDS FOR THINGS!!!

Gerbo, you would love it in Australia - there are no buggies (ugh) or pushchairs. They are all prams.

I hate:

'Fry off' - why not just 'fry'?!
Sarnie
'Have a pop' at someone.

Gerbo to me pram, buggy and pushchair are three different products.

Car chair is enraging PinkieOfPie
DH says close the windows when he means close the curtains and also pillow covers instead of pillow cases.

I have an intelligent adult male friend who uses lots of baby-talk with his 4 year old (a whole other thread there I suspect) and then forgets to switch when he speaks to me. "Din-dins" (dinner/supper/tea, depending on your geography) is the one that really makes my toes curl.

Actually, you've got me started now. My DH, who is a wonderful man and does not deserve this comment, mixes up "much" and "many". It's apparently an Aberdeen thing (happy to be corrected) and the rest of his grammar is spot-on. Worst part is that if I'm not concentrating, I occasionally parrot him and then feel like I have to flick my own forehead.

I didn't realise how many words I hated. Now I do. I might play 'words that make my skin crawl' bingo with myself in the office later...

Another one... a friend has 'fur babies'. Or, you know, cats. They're cats.

PinkyOfPie I have gone NC with the main "two and moo" offender.

Oh yes, cuppa is intensely irritating

As is 'Thanking you'

Fuck Right Off

Ooh, thanking you! That is AWFUL!

Yes ok we get it, north west dialect is so awful and we all sound thick

Sammidges is worse than sarnies, I think. And the worst thing about the wearing your pyjamas after you get home from work thread was all the cutesy abbreviations for pyjamas, like PJs and jammies, as if putting on your nightclothes makes you turn into a giant toddler. I also loathe all those jokey, slightly nervy euphemisms for body parts, like boobs, norks, the girls, the puppies, ladygarden etc etc. And Gok Won and his tendency to shriek on about bambams.

Mains instead of Main Course. Hate it!

Talking about people's homes as in
"shall we meet at yours or mine?"

I know the derivation of "paccy bag" - it's not spelt like that and it's not nice. I just say it's a super large bag that you can PACK a lot of stuff inside!

Not keen on making words sound needlessly 'cute', like brekkie etc - but I love regional colloquialisms, and I'd be sad if they got lost over time.

Cuppa, jammies, jimjams, din-dins, nom nom, yummy, scrummy, tummy, hubby, bubba, bubs, brekkie, choccy biccy, ickle, picky bits (sounds like the onset of leprosy). All make me feel a bit queasy.

But my worst is 'gynae' (pron. 'guy-nee'). I used to work with someone who was always making cheery conversation about her persistent 'gynae problems'. 'Ooh, spent all weekend in at obs & gynae again, for my sins!' 'I'm off to the doctor - only me gynae problems again!'

It's the awful combination of medical slang and a sort of jocular tweeness.

Bod. Instead of body.

As in 'a fit bod'.

Beaker - that's an odd one. I'd never say "pass me that beaker" unless I was talking about a the plastic cup kind, but in my head I have a very clear distinction between a mug and a china beaker.

Nothing wrong with Brew!!!!!

I can't abide cuppa, brew, hubby, hubster or bubba.
However, I really don't mind little man, spag bol or veg (but hate veggies) < mass of contradictions, me >
When I met DH, he used to refer to having sex as bonking/having a bonk. I made it clear that there would be no sexual activity if he continued to use such off putting terminology.