learn the subtle differences between british english and american english

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We never ever say mom, or momma. We probably only ever say mama in the song ‘mama I love you’ and mum jokes.

Generally, British people say mummy when they are little and this changes to mum as they get older. However, again there is a lot of regional variation, and in places like Yorkshire they say ‘mam’. I am not sure what they say when they are little.

An Ice Pop in the UK is the frozen juicy sugar water that is in plastic, which you suck and end up cutting your mouth. They are made by Mr Freeze and are normally the cheapest ice cream. Some people even call them Mr Freezes, freezies or froozies.

And what Americans call Ice Pops, that is either a ‘lolly ice’:http://www.facebook.com/home.php#topic_top or ice lolly, depending on the region. It is definately a lolly ice in Liverpool, but generally ice lolly in Southern England. But there are some people like in Lincolnshire or Glouster that say ice poles, but that isn’t normal. After doing loads of research I have found that scouse does have a lot of Irish influences. But there are other other regional differences, in Nottingham they are called ‘suckers’:http://www.themouthpiece.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-16349.html and my friend just calls them lolly pops.

There is one thing though, we DON’T call them popsicles

No one (that I know of) calls it gum in the UK. However there is so much regional variation.
In posher, more middle class areas, such as Harrogate, it is simply Chewing Gum.
In Liverpool, scouse, it is called ‘Chewy’. My friend from Harrogate laughed when I said this, and my flatmates from Southern England don’t know what it is. I think it is quite obvious.
In Manchester, Mancs, it is called ‘Chuddy’. This stretches up to Yorkshire. My friend said if he had to, he would call it chuddy, but I think chewy is a lot better.
In Newcastle, Geordie, it is called Chut or Chutty.

We would never say sugarfree stick either.

Also like wikipedia said, we call the round ones gum balls if they come from a gum ball machine, or screwballs if they come from the bottom of a screwball ice cream.

We never call them pantyhose. Just tights. Until recently, I didn’t even know what they were, I thought they were stockings.
According to wikipedia, Americans call thick tights or leggings ‘tights’ and thin sheer hoisery.

But according to wikipedia, people wear the thin tights without anything underneath in America, that certainly isn’t true in the UK or that I know of.

I have just come across this on a youtube video. We would never say huh in England, well they might say it in the South. We would be more likely to say eh? or Aye? (like A), which I definately say in my scouse accent.
However you may see it written in British children’s books, which never seem to use language that people actually speak.

We would never say this, we would say messing around.

We also say messing to mean joking. Like ‘she is only messing’ (joking). I don’t know if you say that in America.

We would never say ‘quit saying’, we would always say ‘stop saying’. We never start a demand like ‘quit fooling around’ (which is an American saying), we would always start it with stop. We only use quit in the way that you leave something like ‘I quit dancing’. Or as a demand ‘quit dancing’ would be ok, because you are leaving something.
The only thing I can think of that we start with the word quit is ‘quit smoking’.

British people tend to just call it the sea. I know it isn’t right, but I think when British people refer to it is right. Like they say they are going into the sea when they are on the beach. I think it is the sea then, which attaches onto the ocean.

We call them stabilisers