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?

"We're having a roast this Sunday" but roast what? That's a method of cooking not a food stuff.

Yorkshires instead of Yorkshire pudding.

Describing mundane things as "world class".

Even worse 'yorkies'

'Two and moo' is twee beyond, and something I've never heard in real life, thankfully!

When I met DH, he used to refer to having sex as bonking/having a bonk

I didn't think anyone other than a sun subeditor has ever used the term 'bonk' I thought it was like the phrase 'steamy romp'. Has anyone said to their partner 'How's about a 'steamy romp' tonight?'

Dylan No, he's never asked for a romp but he does refer to periods as moons ie he asks if I'm 'on my moons'.

And yet the remains curiously unmurdered

And yet he remains curiously unmurdered

even worse 'yorkies'

Oh no, I say Yorkies! I'm from Yorkshire, does that make it Ok?

Bonk is a horrible word.

I also hate leccy for electric

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

Gruesome. Perhaps you could misunderstand and ask about her bad knee (or her old friend Guy Knee, whom she sees often in medical settings)...

DH has an annoying habit (from his family - I have never heard anyone else in the world do this) of saying 'key the door' instead of the 'lock the door'. When he was growing up 'shutting the door' meant pushing it to, but not actually shutting it fully so it drifted in an out annoyingly in draughts, 'locking the door' meant engaging the handle and closing it properly, and 'keying the door' meant actually turning the key. I feel he should have grown out of this at 43.

"I thank you." - said in a mid-Atlantic drawl.

thank you." - said in a mid-Atlantic drawl.

Had to say that out loud to appreciate how bad that one is!

Dylan Yes, it is something of a miracle. He is Irish so I tend to put it down to that. He also calls trainers 'slippers' and tells me to stop 'petting' the DCs.

Ruler. It's a rule.

I find the Queen gets rather agitated when you try draw a straight line using her head.

FerretFred eh? The thing you draw a line with?

It is a ruler!

I've noticed that English words don't annoy me as much as my own native language but abbreviations and diminutives annoy me regardless.

Hubby, Hun and missing various prepositions do the speaker no favours IMO.

I don't mind so much regional quirks though I don't use them as they just don't sound right when I say them.

He is Irish so I tend to put it down to that. He also calls trainers 'slippers' and tells me to stop 'petting' the DCs.

MissHoolies, DH and I are Irish, and I have never in my life come across a fellow Irish person who calls trainers 'slippers', referred to periods as 'being on your moons' or referred to sex as a 'bonk'. ('Bonking' in fact sounds very 'British tabloid headline speak' and actually quite alien, to most Irish people.) His nationality is no excuse.

By 'petting' the DC's does he mean stroking them like a cat or dog, or spoiling them?

My Irish DP calls a sharpener a pencil parer. I love that he does

Oh yes I call it a parer too.

Julie Burchill on "pampering" www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2000/apr/01/weekend.julieburchill

For Arkhamasylum

Me too on the parer.

And Julie Burchill, while I am not a particular fan, is right on the money about 'pampering'. It drives me crazy when people bob up on here and suggest a day of 'pampering' like some kind of cure-all to help with self-esteem.

Another word that people say at their own risk in front of me is "pamper". According to the dictionary, to pamper is "to indulge too much, to feed to the full". Really? That's not what it means now. What it means now is having your hands, feet, thighs and upper body pulled, poked and pummelled, oiled, anointed and scented, so your disgusting female body won't seem quite so disgusting to your unlucky husband/ boyfriend when he makes a deposit. Hey, the poor guy's already had to reconcile himself to the fact that he's not having regular penetrative sex with Angelina Jolie; the least you can do is get your cuticles knocked into decent shape!

Angelina Jolie is a bag of bones.

"KoalaDownUnder

FerretFred eh? The thing you draw a line with?

It is a ruler! confused"

Jeez. It IS called a ruler. I teach Maths so I am pretty sure of what it is called.

Thanks for the lulz, though!

...pretty sure what it is called...

Apple he uses 'petting' to mean spoiling. He once accused me of 'pettedness' which even I could tell was a made up word.
I am actually Welsh by birth so think I will start to use loads of stupid words and claim that it's because I'm Welsh.

'Petting' as 'spoiling' is a regional usage within Ireland, so I'll give him that as legitimate, but the others are his own oddities!