Having ‘a cuppa’

[ConstantlyFuriosa]

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 love a chippy tea (yes ‘tea’ as I’m northern 😂)

Maybe they say “should we have fish and chippy chips’? 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂

But “fish and chips”, “sausage and chips” etc is a specific order? So “takeaway fish, sausage, scampi, haggis, pizza, black pudding, white pudding or pie and chips”?

Nowt to do with posh! I said upthread my MIL said din-dins and she came from a massive mining family in Denaby Pit Village!

I need my green tablets and my fainting couch please nurse. Panties indeed. I have also noticed an increasing tendency for US authors to use the generic term underwear when they mean knickers. As in " my underwear lay on the sheepskin rug where he had ripped them from my desperate body" . Or " she towelled her lithe body dry and stepped into her silky underwear" Maybe I am reading the wrong sort of books.

Well I assume you’re Southern to me if by Northern you mean north England. I don’t understand why they tell their partner / family that they are confined to ordering fish and chips from the chippy establishment.

Totally normal here in S yorkshire

Chip supper in Glasgow. Which is really confusing!

That song Lunch by Billie Eillish gets on my nerves. Maybe because it makes me hungry, or the word lunch sounds weird sung by an American

Brilliant! My gran would have the vapours!

I remember being really genuinely startled when I came to England that people had things other than fish and chips ( and deep fried Mars Bars) from a chip shop.

Why did it surprise you?

Because I had never seen or heard of anything other than fish and chips (and deep fried Mars Bar) in a chip shop! Probably battered sausage and haggis existed.

But still, in my head , if someone is going to a chippy they are getting fish and chips.

You have missed the point of the thread.

Couldn't edit this - I meant Fish Supper.

DH insists this should come with a cuppa and sliced white bread.

Yes, if you understand the point of the thread.

I entirely agree on both words. ‘My hubby’ sounds so self satisfied and smug. Mind you, the person I know who uses this phrase is a very smug, self satisfied person anyway so that’s probably why I see it that way!

I do thanks. It’s about shortened, slang or dialect words which are annoying. Initially one specific one. The OP wondered whether she was unreasonable finding it infuriating. People said either yes or no and suggested other similar words. You suggested a perfectly useful standard English word and I said you were unreasonable to be infuriated by it because it was so obviously useful. Why so rude?

I find that odd if you’re from Glasgow(Are you?). It’s very common to order black pudding, haggis, smoked sausage, cheeseburger, sausage etc. I’d find the Mars Bars stranger personally. Does anyone actually order those besides tourists?

Do people still have cups of tea? I only ever see people drinking out of mugs, in which case wouldnt it be 'a mugga'!?🤔

I think its just a British thing though to shorten and 'cutesify' words and phrases. We really cant help it!😁

Yes, I am! To be fair, I grew up in a dry district - so no pubs and no chip shops for miles. But if someone said they were going to a chip shop they were 'away for a Fish Supper.'

I think the burgers and stuff are quite new to chip shops, no?

There were also had a lot of Chinese Chippies on the south side of Glasgow (I wasn't south but my best friend was). That was just for chips.

I have indeed had a deep fried Mars Bar. Think they were invented on the Byres Road. Do Not Recommend.

Cuppa is not cutesified. It's existed for years. The cutesified stuff (like holibobs) comes largely from online trends.

Chip shops in my then area of Glasgow sold the items I mentioned back in the ‘90’s if that counts as recent. I’ll take your advice on the deep fried Mars Bars and continue to avoid them.

Does anyone else say margarine with a hard G? MarG a rin? My gran also did this and I'm not sure if this is a North East thing. Shortened to Marg.

It's for the best!

A mug is a type of cup.
when I think of a cuppa I think of a mug rather than a bone china cup and saucer.
Maybe we also need a potta (pot of tea).