Mommy or Mummy?

Hi guys!

Just polishing up chapter 5 of Home is Where You Make It and I ran into an old problem for about the millionth time in my writing career. Never really came up with a consensus to the problem, however.

Do you prefer to read American English or British English?

Of cause, that’s easy if you are an American writer but I’m British so I write things like “colour”, “armour” and “aluminium“ and I’m never sure which to use. The example that started this debate this time, however, was “Mummy” vs “Mommy”.

So, the question is, should I stay true to my own native language, or yield to the more universal or “American” way of writing things?

Comments

[Vaalintine]

Is the character in question british, or a pony analog to it? If so, that's what you do.

[Classy Fox]

Yeah. You go with what the character's nationality is. Granted I'm American and prefer to use British spelling for some things.

[ImAbronyFagg]

That should change based on who’s perspective you’re writing for. If the person you’re riding in perspective of his British, write in British English and vice a versa. For a pony perspective, I’d say American English.

[Mist_Chaser]

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What they said. Though you need to remember that Equestria is a cosmic sinkhole of horse puns and pop culture references that make no sense of inhabitants questioning on how or why unless they are human and get the joke.

[Classy Fox]

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For example of an obscure reference: the empty child.

[Shanenator]

AMERICAN DUH IT IS THE ONE TRUE WAY!!

Whichever one you prefer, honestly. They're both technically correct.

[ClosetBrony]

I agree with everyone else. I think the consistency is important too. If you've been writing it as American English then using Mummy might through everyone off initially.

[SoulDragonWithFlow]

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Yeah, I found a few other examples while reading back my story. I’ve been using British English so I’ll stick with that.