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?

[SpaceUnicorn]

And "shampoo" instead of champagne gives me the serious rage

Hell yes. Ditto 'bubbles'/'bubbly'/'fizz'.

[CwtchMeQuick]

I never say tea/cup of tea. It's a cuppa or a brew in my house, never referred to as anything else.

[ThereIsNoFelange]

I hate these abbreviations too.

I also hate some expressions I only ever seem to come across on mumsnet. See the following:

• brew up
  
• plate up
  
• presenting with
  
• toilet used as a verb

[EllsTeeth]

"Cup of drug" (coffee) I don't mind.

"Two and moo"?? What the hell?? Thankfully I've never heard this in real life...

[gunsandbanjos]

Can I add crips and sammiches please. Gives me rage.

[DontTouchTheMoustache]

I think brew is a colloquialism as we literally never call it anything else back home, everyone I know calls it a brew.

[Ymamiss]

We say 'panad' in Wales, which is short for 'cwpanad' (a cuppa!)

[DownWithThisSortaThing]

Cuppa doesn't bother me that much but yummy and hubby are my pet hates.
A woman at work insists on calling my DP my 'hubby' in conversation about him - were not married and I've pointed that out, several times corrected her, but she still does it
She also constantly talks about her own hubby, I know his name but she still calls him 'my hubby'. Or even worse, 'the hubby'.
It makes me cringe every time

[Justwanttoweeinpeace]

Quick question.

Those of you that hate 'cuppa'; if you are offering a tea or coffee to a number of people several times a day, what word do you use?

Do you offer 'tea, coffee, hot chocolate, just hot water and the bag on the side'? Or is there another catch all word I've not considered?

[DontTouchTheMoustache]

Technically I suppose we don't say "brew" actually, we say "fancyabrew" which is all one word.

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

If I want to emphasise that they can have hot chocolate or even hot water if they want I would probably just say 'hot drink'!

[SpaceUnicorn]

"Plate up" is hilarous. You're not on Masterchef, love

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Or 'teaorcoffee?' like it's one word.

[EllsTeeth]

I would say "would anyone like a tea or coffee" and then let people specify their exact requirements re type/ milk/ sugar etc. And can "cuppa" mean coffee too then? I thought it was just tea (ditto "brew")

[OneManBucket]

Someone I know calls a cup a beaker...I want to scream everytime they say 'pass me your beaker'. Am I a baby? NO. I drink from a cup or maybe even a mug but never a beaker.

[HeyRobot]

Cuppa, brew - awful. Never heard two and moo before and want to lie down for a bit now. Mil once offered me a 'hot choc'.

Leccy is something awful. Why does it need a pet name? Does the gas feel left out?

Strangely I don't mind all the job ones - chippy, spark etc.

[SpaceUnicorn]

Those of you that hate 'cuppa'; if you are offering a tea or coffee to a number of people several times a day, what word do you use?

I say 'Would you like a cup of tea?' or 'Would you like a tea/coffee?

Thinking about it, 'cuppa' is quite presumptuous as it precludes coffee or other hot beverages. Another point in it's disfavour: it is both annoying and exclusionary.

[EllsTeeth]

And since we've strayed to other annoying expressions - "holibobs" anyone? A womantic holibob with the hubby hun?

[Chipscheesentomatosauce]

I hate it and "brew". But I've got quite a list of words and phrases I hate for no rational reason, really: bite to eat, spot of lunch, proportion, portion, notion, fag, to name a few.

And I don't know if it's a regional thing or what, but I hate seeing people write things like "is she going shops? That is just ridiculous to me to the point I don't even know if that's an actual true example of what I mean.

[Chipscheesentomatosauce]

I hate "leccy" and even "the electric"!

[HeyRobot]

Toilet as a verb is used in a caring situation. So you toilet someone rather than have to mention wiping them or anything specific. I don't think I've seen it on here. 'Go toilet' does annoy me. As in 'do you want to go toilet?' 'Are you going shops later?' Probably because it's the slang from where I grew up.

[yesterdaysunshine]

'Nan'.

Hate it.

[yesterdaysunshine]

Especially when prefixed with 'me' rather than 'my' - 'me Nan'.

[AgainPlease]

YANBU. We say "would you like a cup of tea or coffee" 'round these parts in naice SW London.

I also can't stand the word "leccy" as others have mentioned here too! There's an ad on the radio at the moment that says "gaz and leccy" (gas and electricity) and I cringe. EVERY.TIME.