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?

Brew or cuppa don't really bother me but I don't say either.
I hate the word 'spud' for a potato. Don't know why just makes me cringe.

Don't mind 'brew' at all.

I wouldn't use 'butty' for cold sandwiches but somehow seems ok for bacon, sausage, egg or fishfinger butties. I don't think this is a widespread thing though.

I'm from the North East and people generally don't say it up here. I think of it as a Yorkshire thing is that right?

I’m from Derbyshire. We don’t ‘brew’, we ‘mash’, eg :

“Are you mashin’ mi duck?” Means “are you making tea, my friend?”

I hate brew too, and cuppa!!

It seems to be a mumsnet thing to irrationally and often snobbily hate perfectly normal words, usually regional ones.

What doe a drive me mad is people thinking all people from the North speak the same. There's regional variations and then some of us don't have sting accents or use regional slang.

I also dislike “gifted” and belly instead of tummy (for a child) as well. shudders
Ha yes. I wasn't allowed to say the word 'belly' as a child, only tummy or stomach!

"Cuppa" is horrid. It falls in the same category of horridness as "hubby".

I quite like "brew" though.

@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?

Would you actually say "I'm menstruating?"

OP, no, you are decidedly not unhinged. Ghastly, lumpy expression [yuck] if used for tea/coffee etc.
One can brew beer, coffee or similar, but one drinks whatever one brew.

I'm confused. I don't intentionally say the word 'cuppa', but when I say 'cup of tea' it sounds like 'cuppa tea'. Do all you people who hate 'cuppa' genuinely pronounce the f in 'of'?
If not, isn't it just people writing it down as an abbrevation? Like PP mentioned, tinned toms and pots - I never say those words but I do write them on the shopping list and might write them on here if on my phone!
If you don't say brew or cuppa or cuppa tea, what do you say to finish the sentence 'Would you like a...'?

I don't use it but have no strong opinion about the word.

I really hate it I don’t know why. And it makes me really hate anyone who says it.

Oh!

I use the word brew instead of tea - it's normal where I am from! As a pp said, you brew tea, so it makes sense at least, it's not as if it's a made up word!

Sounds like something that has been coopted by the middle-classes, like builders tea. See this scene from Peepshow (towards the end is the builders tea reference):

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Paw-EKCw_3o&t=145s

Re.OP:

It’s common. As is “cuppa”.
Ugh

I hate the word meal, it makes my teeth grate

Plus hubby

Word cringe goes a long way back with me but am not about to list them as what does it really matter anyway? My mother used to refer to our kitchen as a scullery and we were not living in some vast Edwardian house with servants quarters and maids doing the cooking and cleaning.
As an adult my earliest word cringe experience was when I was a new mother and hearing older relatives doing the baby talk and referring to cars as carcars and trains as tootoos. I never said anything but hated it and never talked to my children like that.

Hate brew and cuppa. Don't mind tea for the actual tea you drink but I think it sounds awful describing food. Yes I'm odd!

@ShutUpAlex

I really hate it I don’t know why. And it makes me really hate anyone who says it.

I hate people who start a sentence with And.

JUST TEASING!!!!!!

YANBU but cuppa is much worse!

I have no problem with either brew or cuppa. I can't really understand why anyone would get exercised over either.

I would much rather have some regional variations in the way we speak than have standardised English across the board.

And Janegrey333 the commonest thing you can do is to call something or someone "common".