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 hate all the words listed on here and am gobsmacked (now that is a word I do like) by how many other people hate the same or similar words. I even dislike nan or nanna yet my own grandmothers were called nana and my son calls my mum "nan", I still love them as people but cannot bring myself to utter that N word.

I also dont like words with hard "g" and "ie" sounds so "eggy" for instance makes be want to be sick, I can almost smell egg sandwiches when I hear the word. I have a version of misophonia to which I have always associated my dislike of certain sounds and words.

I'm surprised to see this thread so busy, as cuppa seems very frequently used on MN. I don't like it either, or this obsession some MNers have with people 'popping in for a cuppa' as if we all have all the time in the world to be making hot drinks. I also don't get this endless tea drinking, probably because I don't drink tea. Some people seem to mainline the stuff.

Also detest hubby, hollibobs, cossie etc. Just use proper words!

Nana and Nan I don't like but they were never words used in our family, I try and be a bit less tooth-grinding about them because I know they are more of a regional preference.

What else...nom nom, brekkie, jim jams, tootsies...

Nyooz then

Nana is quite common in the US, but granny is considered very old fashioned.

I do not hate anyone's Nana but I can't stand the word.

I'm sorry!

senecafalls I wonder if it's a regional thing - I spent a lot of my childhood in the US (not far from Seneca Falls as it happens) and never heard anyone use the term Nana for grandmother. When I came to the UK I assumed it was one of those peculiarly British baby talk terms (cossie, bockle, choccy biccy, etc).

I'm sure everyone's Nana is just lovely. But I too hate the word. Granny is my preferred term but I have no problem at all with people who shudder at that particular word.

Ours was just known by her name. I think we were encouraged to call her Nannie () when little though.

'Imma' instead of 'I'm going to'
'Sammich'
Drives me scatty!

Totally agree, OP. I hate 'cuppa'.

I also hate 'hiya'.

More recently, I've come to hate the word 'massive' because it's seemingly the only way that anyone can express 'really big' anymore.

Bip You may be right about the regional thing. I'm from the South, but have spent a lot of time in NYS over the years as DH is from there. Nana (and Nanny) have always been popular in the South. DH's family tend to use versions of Grandmother (but not Granny) like Gran or Grammy. When I became a grandmother, I was quite happy that the other grandmother wanted to be Nana so I didn't have to be.

Yes YABU.

Anyone say "Hey" as a greeting!? I quite like it.

Do you call a group of people "guys"!?
I do with small groups of kids.

I often say 'guys'

Someone I work with often has business conversations and refers to the person as 'bud' or 'buddy'. I cringe as I think it sounds so out of place.

I actually detest the D part when referring to your DH or DS etc. Half the time posters are criticising the person they refer to, so why call the Dear in the first place? I cannot get my head round it!

But we do like a good brew in Lancashire. A sign in a cafe in Windermere invites people to "come in and have a proper brew". I love it!

I was about to post that "brew" in the US just refers to beer, but I just noticed that my coffee maker has told me to "enjoy your brew" when the brewing cycle finished.

Someone I work with often has business conversations and refers to the person as 'bud' or 'buddy'. I cringe as I think it sounds so out of place.

Ridiculously overfamiliar. An Americanism, I believe.

i worked in a bar for a while and I outright refused to pour a pint of Peroni until they called it that and not PEPPERONI

them 'I'll have a pint of pepperoni love'
me 'you'll have to go to the shop then fuckface'

I love cuppa! Sounds comforting to me😆☕️

Errrrr ... Maybe I should change my username given the level of vitriol for poor old 'cuppas' !!

Funnily enough though, despite my total love of big mugs of tea (currently pg and really missing having my usual 5 or 6 a day ), I hardly ever actually say 'cuppa' unless for vaguely comic effect. And never on its own, without the 'tea' after. Don't mind other people saying it though!

When I was a child I thought "Nana" was my grandmother's actual first name. I couldn't tell you what it is even now

More recently, I've come to hate the word 'massive' because it's seemingly the only way that anyone can express 'really big' anymore.

I agree! What is it with 'massive[ly]' on mumsnet?! It's overused beyond belief.

In the same vein, people being 'devastated' about every trivial thing, never just upset or sad or disappointed. It gets silly.

Am I alone in not liking (I actually mean really loathing, but I am being Mumsnetty and minimising) the word 'snack'. Particularly on adverts for chocolate or biscuits...?

It's not a 'snack', it's 'eating between meals' and that is how you get fat.

Hate it. It's like being told to overeat.

'Imma' instead of 'I'm going to'

Do people actually say that, though, or is it exclusively dimwit social media language? It's awful either way, and always makes me think about Immac stinky hair removal cream. (Does that still exist, or did it become Veet?) Or the Immaculate Conception.

I actually detest the D part when referring to your DH or DS etc. Half the time posters are criticising the person they refer to, so why call the Dear in the first place? I cannot get my head round it!

But that's just a community convention, though. It's not that people actual mean the 'dear' part or are going around in RL talking about their Dear Husbands to their friends, the way a certain generation of mildly tiddled wanker goes on about 'the good lady wife'. My father used to be a radio ham and they had their own set of annoying conventions for referring to their families - children were 'junior ops', I remember.

Anyway, frankly, whatever stops people saying 'hubby', 'hubster' or 'hubstalicious'.

(Incidentally, I just googled Immac to see if it still existed and one of the top hits was a netmums thread about pubic hair removal in which someone brightly exclaimed umm... hubby doesnt like eating off a hairy plate.. sorry TMI !!!! )