Having ‘a cuppa’

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Why does this sentence infuriate me so? I already know I’m probably being unreasonable but it’s so grating. I can’t be the only one?

I agree - cuppa and sarnie are both abbreviations. But “holibobs” in particular isn’t.

Where I live, literally everyone says “cuppa”. It’s not twee or old fashioned, it’s just short hand for “do you want tea or coffee”

I just had to Google 'Mic drop' as I've never heard it before.

South Africa.

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Seems perfectly normal to me. I can’t understand the obsession with 100 varieties of coffee.

I use Jimmie jams. … I’ll get my coat…

Meal is my number two most hated word after succulent. My husband and son say them to me all the time!

My mother hates the word ‘spread’ instead of buffet!

Where I’m from we say ‘brew’…eg “I’m dying for a brew!”

Would that irritate you too?

I love regional differences. 🥰

Brew sounds like 'you can stand your spoon up in it' sort of dark brown stuff.

Yes to these. My kids know never to refer to it as uni in front of me.

Ugh yes, I remember that. 'Pinta' grates on me even more than 'cuppa' - I hate twee abbreviations generally.

'Nice cup of tea' grates on me as well - as if anyone would purposely make a horrible cup of tea. (Tbf I don't actually drink tea, which somehow ramps up the cringe factor for me with these expressions. 😄)

It's slang and sort of precious. I also hate people who say they're having 'a wine', as though all wine were the same.

Top of the list though, is 'having a ciggie'. This grinds my gears because as a student I lived in a shared house and two of the other people were the only smokers and they chain-smoked every evening in the shared living room until the air was literally blue and it always started with one of them (who had a lisp) saying 'Thall we have a thiggie?'

I can hear her now, and she was unbelievably awful.

I literally HATE it and can't explain why

Take out a blank sheet of A4, stare at it.

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whatever words these threads are about it's best laughed at & ignored!!

I think we all have words that grate in us & words we can't see the issue with

I don't care what someone calls 'a cup of tea' or their 'hubby' but chillax raises my blood pressure very quickly!

I have never heard hollibobs other than on MN.

This. I've just read a book by Shari Lapena, and I was already finding her writing style a bit annoying, but when she started talking about panties, and the pantie drawer, I was cringing so much.

It’s “sammich” in our house 😉

Or Hun, babe, sweety, love said by complete strangers

No way! Hubby is completely unacceptable, whereas a cuppa is perfectly fine... who's got time to say cup of tea?!

Agree re ‘spends’; I think it is just the infantilisation of adult behaviour. I also cringe when I see adults saying that there are X number of sleeps till Christmas.

How about hollybobs?

All very valid loathed words. Do your dh and ds say it on purpose 😁

Oh god, the new one: ‘spenny’

I hate the word cuppa

Stop! Stop! My poor teeth...

You’d hate my household. If asking others if they want tea, we say ‘cuppa char?’. Tea is very popular in our household.

I am smoking a fag. (Waynetta Slob). 😂