"cupola" = most irritating word ever ever ever

[ipanemagirl]

Particularly when used by agonisingly posh men on radio 4 with some kind of writhing accent - they might as well be fiddling with themselves it sounds so vile.

Am I alone?

you're right! but why?

Isn't it an architectural term? Are architectural terms intrinsically irritating?

It is an architectural term but that isn't the whole problem. I can live with a well posh bloke saying doric column and pediment etc. But it's the way they say:
"COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOpulah!"
That makes me want to lie in the road.

It's the same for anyone posh suddenly falling into a foreign language with a massively dedicated accent, Italian is particularly bad.