Mummerset

Mummerset is an invented English language dialect used by actors that mimics a stereotypical English Southern rural accent, while not being specific to one area.

It draws on a mix of characteristics of real accents from this region, such as strong rhotic pronunciation, forward-shifted diphthongs, lengthened vowels and dialect grammar: for instance, "I am a farmer" becomes "Oi be a faaarrrmer".

The name is a play on words: the combination of 'mummer', a slang term for a folk actor, and the name of the largely rural county of Somerset.

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See also: Mummerset, Acting, Dialect, Diphthongs, England, English English, English language, Mummers Play, Rhotic and non-rhotic accents