/ˌaɪsˈkriːm/. How to pronounce ice cream in British English. (English pronunciations of ice cream from the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, both sources © Cambridge University Press).ow many is a billion? The answer may seem obvious, but the use of this word can lead to confusion. In the UK and Ireland the word traditionally meant the number 1,000,000,000,000 (a million millions), which is called a trillion in the United States.