What's the difference between "ring you up" and "call you"?

@corta24 I'm blocked by somebody in this thread so I can't see all of the comments.


As @froggtongue said there's all sorts of regional differences. I wouldn't say, for example, "ring you up" but just "ring you" or "give you a ring" - both are interchangeable with "call", incidentally. (I'm in the Liverpool City Region of Northwest England)

Ring you up is what the cashier does at the store.

Call you is to call on the telephone.

Give you a ring is another way to say call on the telephone. Though it's kind of old fashioned.

Hit you up is a way to say get in contact.

I'm guessing ring you up is someone mistakenly mixing give you a ring and hit you up.

That or it's specifically UK or maybe Aussie English. Everything I said above is American English

There isn't. It's just individuals' own use of colloquialisms.

More often the "up" is omitted, as it is superfluous and rather meaningless, but people do say, "I rang up and..." instead of, "I rang [name] and..." This is where the called name is already known to the listener.

"ring you up" sounds casual, maybe a little more playful than "call you".

Ring you is British, call you is USA

Ring you up is something that typically happens at the checkout down at the supermarket.

Call you is a telephone call...

@corta24 🤔nothing really about the same 🤷‍♂