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?

The phrase I see on here frequently that makes me want to smash someone in the mouth is 'do a tinkly laugh' which usually follows bring advised to make a bitchy comment to someone.

WTF is that about? Do they just mean a fake laugh? If so, why laugh at all?

While we're adding things - it makes me squirm to see "toms" for tomatoes or "pots" for potatoes written down.

e.g. Tinned pots. Gives me a mental image of a tin of small plant pots.

Other disliked abbreviations/nicknames include sarnie, butty, piece (NOT Scottish, NOT to mean sandwich - just a slice of plain old bread) and tinny.

MonkeyButler I can't stand mayo for mayonnaise, in addition to those two

I can't stand people saying they're meeting up to have a 'natter'.

Very much a Scottish thing to say "cuppie"

This must be a regional thing as I've never heard of it. We say "would you like a cup of tea/coffee"

I can see why some regional accents would say "cup'ae" though. (As in cup of.)

IABU but it irritates me when DP says he'll "cook off" something or other. The word off seems superfluous as if I'm any better, I probably say more than I should as well.

Hate cuppa

Hate "veggies" even more

Spag bol" pure gees me the dry boak.

😂😂😂😂. I remember the first time I heard "that's pure dead gallus". I whispered to DH "what does that mean?"

pure gees me the dry boak. Many a thing on MN gives me the dry boak

YABVU.

To me "cuppa?" whilst raising my eyebrows

YANBU - I also hate "a brew". Just. No.

Things people say that make me cringe and want to claw the skin off my face:
Cuppa
Brew
Chinwag
Leccy
Loo
Bog
Spagbol
Kip (as in a nap/sleep)
Hun
Hubby
Fizzy pop (it's fucking diet coke man!)
And when people say.. bottle of 'bubby'

Hate dry boak.

I say loo. It is absolutely fine.

I really hate it I do not know why poppy

Fucking well sick of 'cuppa' and the way people cluth it two handed to their chest when drinking it like its some lifesaving elxir.... also sick of it being offered as a cure all for everything 'husband having an affair' - CUPPA, 'stress at work' - CUPPA, 'kids running wild' - CUPPA.

Massively irritating

Pamper. 'I hope hubby's going to pamper you'. That makes me want to break things (although slightly less than when my mother says 'lovely jubbly').

I'm starting to think that it's basically just all of the North West use of English language that everyone doesn't like 😂 oh well, Northern and proud and will enjoy a nice brew to celebrate

Would like to pint out that when you choose the coffee cup emoji on here it is called brew....so it can't be all bad

Cook off used to make me laugh when I worked in a restaurant. Also cook down and 'let that rest off for a minute' when referring to sauce.

Hate it

YANBU I hate it too but don't know why!

In fact - and this admission may get me permanently excluded from MN - but I hate the whole British obsession with tea. I don't drink it, infind it very bland, but I find it very bizarre that people can barely get out of bed without a cup of tea. My DH drinks about 15 cups a day and I find myself resenting the mugs just for being there

And what is it with people taking tea bags on holiday? Went to the US with MIL, and of course because the Americans aren't tea obsessed weirdos, they didn't have a tea tray in the room. The way MIL went on you think she'd forfeited her kidneys at check-in. Heard nothing for two weeks but "I just cannot believe they don't have tea in the rooms. I know I can go to Starbucks in the lobby but it's just not the same as Tetley's. I've really struggled without my morning cuppa."

I had never heard a cup of tea referred to as a "brew" until I joined Mumsnet, even though I'm originally a northerner

Maybe I'm posher than I realised

And don't be get started on the tea politics at work! Who's turn is it, I made it last time, I always end up making more cups than Geoff, Sandra hasn't paid her £1 this week for the milk, can we get green milk this week because Susan isn't here, on and on and on it goes!