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Mummerset |
Mummerset is an invented English language dialect used by actors that mimics a stereotypical English Westcountry accent while not being specific to any county.
It is easily identified as a very bad rendition of a Westcountry accent, largely due to a lack of education on the part of the actor (cockney and northern English accents tend to be better represented) and 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.
It is commonly associated with the long running BBC Radio 4 soap opera, The Archers.
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