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?

I haven't read the whole thread as I cba but I do ask visiting staff if they would like a hot beverage and they say tea or coffee.

Regular staff who are on the hot beverage list get given what they always have and we usually say, "putting the kettle on, want one?" Hand gestures are used too but I do say "Who wants tea?" quite loudly when a patient who has complained about us drinking tea is in the surgery even if it isn't tea time .

Sorry Lancashire lass here cuppa or brew is our language but just don't use it outside of Lancashire xxx

'Bum change' is gruesome and sounds as if it involves transplanting body parts rather than a nappy change.

Another one I dislike is being invited to 'come through', rather than 'come in'. It sounds so unnecessarily tortuous, as if you're being asked to perform some athletic manoeuvre in a knee-high tunnel.

And someone up the thread said it, but can I reiterate the full horror of 'pop', whether it's' popping' something in the oven, 'popping' to the shops or a 'pop of colour' in an outfit.

Couldn't get past the first few posts. Froze at 'two and moo'.

The horror. The horror.

Can't stand "natter".

Also "belly". Urgh, belly!

I hate the expression 'sort out' and 'sorted'. No idea why!

'Lavatory', Mrs Grohl, refained people say 'lavatory'!

I've heard cuppie before, my BIL uses it a lot (he's from Dundee so I suspect it's regional).

Most of these words don't bother me but I do dislike hun and babes.
My kids call my mum Nana, she was Gran to start with but the nursery kept referring to her as Nana so my eldest chose to use that instead. It makes it easier to distinguish from their other Gran anyway.
I'll probably get flamed for this but I dislike the use of 'naice' on these posts, the term just grates as I mentally pronounce it. I'd rather see 'posh' instead.

'large of nork'

Lickle and bockle and the like make me want to snack the person in the mouth. 😡

In my house we mash the tea.

When fashion types say "a jean" or "a trouser" instead of jeans, a pair of trousers etc. That really grates.

'Made me a little bit sick in my mouth". No it didn't. Stop making me think of sick in someone's mouth

venus add to that 'a lip" as in 'a bold red lip' or 'a bold berry lip'....

Luxe!! That makes my teeth itch and want hubby to make me a cuppa with a two and moo and a liccle dippy bickie to sort me out. Ooh.

we mash the tea

What on earth does that mean?

Hate poorly, hubby, Hun, cheeky, 'the girls', girly, nan/nana. Both my grandmas were Grandma. Just plain Grandma on my mum's side and Grandma [our surname] on my dad's. My mother in law now insists on
being called Nanny by my daughter and it sets my teeth on edge. I silently seethe with rage.

Hate cuppa

Lentils is your MIL down south? I have found it's a very south-eastern thing (Nanny). Nana/Nanna is more northern. I don't know why people rave about Grandma, how many people call their mothers Ma these days? It's a slang abbreviation of Grandmother, is Grandma. IMHO.

Really there should be a Grandmum, in line with modern parlance?!

There is an irony in having this thread in Mumsnet

Sometimes that's crossed my mind (Grandmum!)

My children have no grandmas on either side and so I don't know why Nana gives me the rage. Probably cause it is so whingey a term!

"Hubby" - for some reason i think it makes a person sound really smug for having one!

I cannot stand it either, or the word " moist" ugh that gives me shudders

"If you'd like to come round..."

Yes, then what? Please complete the sentence!

Mashing the tea just means letting the tea or teabags steep awhile before pouring. I think it may actually be. Brewing term?

In my part of Ireland we would have said we let it draw.

We say mash here too!