{"id":1543,"date":"2026-07-06T18:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:22:30","slug":"written-in-british-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/articles\/written-in-british-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Written in British English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If you are a British author, writing in the English language, life is a constant struggle against those who wish to impose other versions onto you. Even on social media platforms, I can often feel like a cultural minority, marginalised by my happy use of the letter &#8216;u&#8217;, my reversal of other&#8217;s &#8216;er&#8217; into &#8216;re&#8217;, and the insistence of my spell checkers that I should be writing &#8216;marginalized&#8217; (and every such words) with the &#8216;z&#8217; at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I write my stories in British English, and for that reason I proclaim my stance at he start of each and every book.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-760x760.png 760w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3.png 785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It may not be the world norm these days, especially for the larger book market in the English language.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But it is my language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a British author, writing in the English language, life is a constant struggle against those who wish to impose other versions onto you. Even on social media platforms, I can often feel like a cultural minority, marginalised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","wpcat-6-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}