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Fancy a cuppa?
If you would like to offer someone a cup of tea, you can say "fancy a cuppa?"
'Fancy...?' is a shortened form of 'do you fancy' and means 'do you want?'
For example,
Fancy a chat?
Fancy a beer?
Fancy a film?
'A cuppa' is the way we pronounce 'a cup of' in spoken english.
When we say a cuppa, we use a schwa sound at the start and end.
A cup of coffee.
A cup of hot chocolate.
A cup of tea.
In addition to saying a cuppa instead of a cup of in spoken english, we can also use a cuppa as a noun meaning 'a cup of tea'.
So, "fancy a cuppa?" means "do you want a cup of tea?"
Fancy a cuppa, anyone?
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