How do you say "a cup of tea"?

[GRMUM]

Hi, I am just writing my first assignment for my OU course.As an example of different ways of saying something I am using the phrase a cup of tea. So far I can think of :

A cup of tea
A cuppa tea
A cup of char
A quick brew

Anybody got any more? I am sure there must be other local ways of saying this. If you can also let me know the area its from that would be great! Thanks

I say a cuppa. My grandma used to say "I'll mash the tea".

My DH does the timeout one hand on top of the other making a T shape - response is a thumbs up or down.

We don't get out much

I just assume people will want a cup of tea when i put the kettle on and ask them if they want Earl Grey or builders tea (PG tips).

My mum (originally from Lancashire/yorkshire borders) used to talk about the tea mashing?!

Mashing the tea generally involved it standing in the pot for ages and ages, until the tea was so stewed that you could stand a spoon up in it.

yes, or leaving it in a teapot for hours too. No wonder i'm a coffee person these days!!

Once again thanks for all the imput.
Gingerbear thanks I didn't know that cha was chinese.
Hamster I looked up the cockney rhyming slang and tea is...you & me....rosie lee....kiki dee
I've also found cumbrian dialect.......scordy

On that note I'm of to make a cuppa with my v. expensive imported PG Tips !!!

Cool assignment!!! Wanna Rosie?
I am from Essex

Yes often refereed to as Rosie in my house too and we're in Surrey

Someone put the kettle on Im gaggin for a cuppa tae but I dont like it stewed till you can tar the roads with it tho. Im from Ireland btw

a cup/mug of pg tips.....!

cuppa

Please don't slate me if this in unPC (I don't think it is but you never know).

In the RAF a white tea with no sugar is a Julie Andrews (White Nun)
A black tea with no sugar is a Whoopi Goldburg (Black Nun)
And a white tea with sugar is a Mary Poppins (a julie Andrews with a spoonful of sugar)

Me, I ask for a cuppa

It's have you mashed in my mum's house (north Notts)

GRmum - you'll have to post the essay when it's finished!

You could go on about pragmatics - i don't usually say cup of tea at all, i say "put the kettle on" or "yes please".

I'm from South Wales (valleys) and I've always said just plain ole "d'ya wan' tea?"

Grmum, I'm thinking of doing that next year. How is it?

"bag wash" was a phrase my Nan used for very weak tea... she was from liverpool but never heard anyone else use it

Oh, my gran called weak tea ... um ... "cricket's p*ss"

cuppa splosh

Friend of mine says Big girl's tea when it's caffeinated.

SenoraPostrophe I think I will have to post it! Mind you this started out as an idea for illustrating a point only! Now I've got enough for a full essay...maybe a thesis at a later stage.

Lillibet so far I'm really enjoying it and feel that I have learned loads. This is only the first block and according to some the least interesting. My main problem is that like last year I seem to leave everything to the last minute and I don't like being under pressure.

I'm from Cornwall (originally) but can't think of any typically Cornish way of saying 'cup of tea'. Perhaps: 'Do ee want a cuppa tea, me 'ansome?'. My favourite Cornish expression is the way of calling everyone 'my lover'! Not one you can get away with everywhere in the country!

In Yorkshire, a 'pot of tea' means a mug (not a teapot).

ellbell - i also love the Cornish 'moy 'ansome'!!

Tea

From London orignially but pretty sure everyone round here (Cardiff) says just tea, no cuppas or nowt.