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?

Waitrose i had to stifle a giggle in our local a few weeks ago as an American couple were ordering food at the bar. It's very pub foody and everything comes with the option of "chips or veg" (I also hate the term veg BTW!). The couple said "sorry what is veg?" (Hard g) and when the barman said "ots veg, it's short for vegetables" the woman in the couple looked at him like he had 3 heads and said "but why?" I felt like shouting "my thoughts exactly!"

'Lets have some bubbles' (sparkling wine) God I HATE that expression!

Yummy Mummy - the red mist descends

Hun - shudder......

I have a friend who uses all three on a regular basis, sometimes in the same sentence....I'm a miserable old goat

Any offer of tea, whether that be a as cuppa or as a brew is very welcome to me at any time

I can barely bring mysrlf to to type thecwords but "Yummy mummy" makes me cringe so much, and especially when somebody refers to themselves as a you-know-what.

I do not live in the UK so only hear 'cuppa" on mumsnet or British tv. Because of that I guess, I think of it as a cozy grandmotherly type of word. Not sure what Leccy is?

That's brilliant Pinky!

Hub, hubby, hubster (save me), hublander.

Also hate cuppa and brew. If I've had a traumatic experience, I want a fucking gin and tonic, not a cup of fucking tea. And telling me to add sugar when I think hot drinks with extra sugar is sick-making, will not make me less traumatised.

Don't get me started on huns.

Hubster!!!!! Fucking hubster!!! That's dreadful.

Yes hubster bad. But "hublander" Bolivar??

Loathe cuppa but don't get me started on "kip"

"Bless...". How could I forget that..??!

YANBU, I hate the cuppa expression

Rumpy pumpy... Bleeeeuch

My MIL went through a stage of referring to a cup of tea as a 'wet'. 'Anyone fancy a wet?' 'Ooh I could do with a wet' I'm not sure how I stopped myself from battering her to death with the kettle

Thank god. I thought I was the only one.

Cuppa, hubby, little one, Hun, fuming all make my blood pressure rise.

I will raise you "little one" and offer you a "lil dude" or "lil princess"

'Lil Man' makes me feel physically sick too!

darkside that is hilarious - I actually had to stifle a snort

I hate cuppa. Boak.

In shite but occasional guilty pleasure mags like Pick Me Up they sometimes have a selection of short articles, with suggestions of what you could do while reading them.

I suppose the idea is that because they're short, they won't need the full concentration and note taking that their hard hitting journalism normally requires. So you can multitask, and they suggest what you could go while you read.

Suggestions include...

Read it doing a wash how slow do they expect their average readers to be??!

Read it in the bath.

Read it having a cuppa. This gives me rage. I deliberately DO NOT HAVE A WARM BEVERAGE OF ANY KIND UNTIL I HAVE FINISHED READING. I won't even put the kettle on. I literally will not give them the satisfaction. Cuppa. GRRRR.

Hate hate hate a cheeky glass of wine as well! Or a cheeky anything, for that matter.
I'm actually having a cheeky glass of wine while hubby is asleep beside me

Another one in Scotland who has never heard of cuppie!
I'd annihilate DH if he asked I wanted a cuppa! Everyone I know just asks if you want a cup of tea. Or we/they will just say do you want tea? (Or coffee)
Laughing so much at this thread, very funny! Thanks everyone!

Eek! I call my younger son my little one!!!! Or wee one!
Should I defect to the dark side
Lil man or lil princess does gie me the dry boak though

Panties . Can hardly bear to write it.

I say cuppa, also hot choc, Bickies, kip, leccy, tix, pix, spuds, toms, veg, spag Bol, bubbly, beerios...

I also take teabags on holiday.

Oh and bog roll, knicks, sarnie...

"designonaut

Panties . Can hardly bear to write it."

Oh I don't know... Hearing the right man refer to your panties is quite alluring.

I immediately judge anyone that uses the term Hubby and know that we will never ever be friends. My parents don't ever say Spag Bol, instead they insist on pronouncing it 'BologNAY', FFS