To hate the word “brew”

[DinoHat]

Fancy a brew?

Makes my skin crawl. I can’t put my finger on it but it’s just an awful phrase.

Am I unhinged?

I love hearing regional variations on words so cuppa and brew don’t bother me at all. In our house you would be offered “a nice cup of tea”! Maybe you would have a biscuit/ biccy/ cookie with that and hopefully have a good chat / natter/ gossip with your friends/ mates/ pals/ chinas! Live and let live

I've just had a brew.A lovely strong one.Totally normal term here in S Yorkshire

Ooo I love a brew ☕️

Oh and when you select the cup of tea or coffee picture on MN it says “brew”

Love the word brew (am Irish living in Yorkshire). Agree with pp that brew suggests a proper strong mug of tea, cuppa suggests ditch water in an inadequate small cup.

The terms that make my skin crawl the most are "pots" for potatoes and "toms" for tomatoes. Makes me wince every time I read them on here. Jacket pots, tinned toms, eeeeuuurrrgggghhhh 😫.

I’m one of those people who is always annoyed by certain words, but this doesn’t annoy me.

It’s not a word I say myself, and tbf hardly ever hear anyone use it! I’m SE England, and would tend only to hear it from someone from another area- in which case it doesn’t annoy me as it filters into “words used in that area”. Might annoy me if a “posh” person started saying it for no reason.

I really don’t like cuppa, as others have said.

Is cos to a northerner the word 'tea' means supper?

Cuppa is just weird, it's even longer than the word cup so can't even be used as an abbreviation.
It is short for cup of tea

Agree with pp that brew suggests a proper strong mug of tea, cuppa suggests ditch water in an inadequate small cup

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Also absolutely this!
It sounds liked it’s “brewed” properly and therefore will be nice and strong!

I like it when I go to Yorkshire as when you buy a cup of tea - or someone makes you one - it’s exactly how I like it - strong but with a noticeable amount of milk. I don’t mean milky just not a crappy “splash” that does nothing.

In London where I am you can walk off with no milk at all if you don’t check!

Cuppa is also annoying as it could be a cup of anything.

I hate both ‘brew’ and ‘cuppa’ but I think cuppa sets my teeth on edge just that little bit more!

YANBU. MIL says it and it drives me mad.

I also dislike “gifted” and belly instead of tummy (for a child) as well. shudders

What associations does the word have for you? For me I associate with friendly nice things so don't dislike it. I don't think I hate a single word just for the sake of it, but some words conjure up associations of behaviour or meanings or social cues which might be things I dislike so give me shudders if I hear it. Pissflaps would be one.

Brew is northern isnt it?

Wouldn't think anything of anyone saying it, its so normal.

@SenecaTrewe

Urgh I hate it too. For me, a brew is beer or whisky, which actually go through the brewing process. Not tea.

It's said by the same sort of people who say "I'm on" meaning "I'm menstruating." Even worse - "I came on." Are you a radio?

Isn’t whisky distilled rather than brewed?

I don’t like “brew” for tea either.

I don't mind it. It's the infantile language that I read on MN that gives me the rage.

“Brew” is ok. My personal pet hate is “refreshments”. It just makes my skin crawl, I don’t know why. It suggests that whatever food on drink on offer is likely to be terrible.

i'd offer you tea or coffee, no cuppas or brews. i hate the expression 'daddy's little princess' on clothing etc.boak

I hate "brew" and "cuppa"

Just say tea.

I hate refreshments too! In the same box as 'comfort break' for me.

Brew reminds me of Mark and Lard in the 90s, Lard always said 'fancy a brew?' in a funny voice.

Nothing wrong with brew as in 'I'm being some tea' but I don't like it as a noun. It's better than 'a tea' instead of 'some tea' though

Don't ever move to Manchester then ....

It's a northern thing 🙄we have brew,s and butties and tea as our evening meal ,although I don't actually have brews as I don't drink tea and coffee .

Cuppa is short for cup of char. It's slang from the days of the British Raj.

@PandemicAtTheDisco Excellent point!

Brew and cuppa don't bother me. Cuppy is sickening though. As is dippy egg (unless under 10 yo).

Its a coffee or tea, or a cup of coffee or cup of tea.

It is not a 'cuppa' which is just awful. Brew is slightly less nails on chalkboard/.