Blackout@feddit.uk to Casual UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 8 months agoHow I (US) make tea when my British friend comes over to visitfeddit.ukimagemessage-square191fedilinkarrow-up1551arrow-down132file-text
arrow-up1519arrow-down1imageHow I (US) make tea when my British friend comes over to visitfeddit.ukBlackout@feddit.uk to Casual UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square191fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareoneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·8 months agoAlso, make sure to ask “Fancy a cup of?” with extra emphasis on “of”. It is a classic British phrase
minus-squareGrass@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoI feel like I need to hear a recording of this
minus-squareHardeehar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoI think another proper word/phrase is “fancy a cuppa”
minus-squareoneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoYou must be “having a laugh” as they say! I’m 1000% sure it’s “cup of”
minus-squareHardeehar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI’m sure they’re both correct. Maybe it depends on where the speaker is from? I had a friend in undergrad who was British and always phrased it like “cuppa”. “I could reeeeally go for a cuppa” she would say like every other hour.
minus-squareoneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months ago(You seem sincere, so at the risk of killing the joke, I want to point out that both of my comments are deadpan humor! The phrase is indeed “fancy a cuppa”, and I’m intentionally getting it wrong, like the tea preparation instructions in the OP.)
minus-squareAdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 months agoI thought that was Aussie lingo.
Also, make sure to ask “Fancy a cup of?” with extra emphasis on “of”. It is a classic British phrase
I feel like I need to hear a recording of this
I think another proper word/phrase is “fancy a cuppa”
You must be “having a laugh” as they say! I’m 1000% sure it’s “cup of”
I’m sure they’re both correct. Maybe it depends on where the speaker is from?
I had a friend in undergrad who was British and always phrased it like “cuppa”.
“I could reeeeally go for a cuppa” she would say like every other hour.
(You seem sincere, so at the risk of killing the joke, I want to point out that both of my comments are deadpan humor! The phrase is indeed “fancy a cuppa”, and I’m intentionally getting it wrong, like the tea preparation instructions in the OP.)
I thought that was Aussie lingo.
It could be, too!