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((Short description|Stereotypical West Country English accent))
((More citations needed|date=November 2012))
'''Mummerset''' is a fictional [[English language|English]] [[dialect]] supposedly spoken in a rustic English [[Counties of the United Kingdom|county]] of the same name.<ref name="OUP - Concise Oxford companion to the English language - Mummerset">((cite book|others= Roshan McArthur|title=Concise Oxford companion to the English language|editor=Thomas Burns McArthur|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2005|isbn=978-0-19-280637-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QMsWFsI0YkIC&q=%22Mummerset%22&pg=PT994|accessdate=6 November 2011))</ref>  Mummerset is used by actors to represent a stereotypical [[England|English]] [[West Country accent]] while not specifically referencing any particular county.<ref name="OUP - oxforddictionaries.com - definition of Mummerset">((cite web|url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Mummerset|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226052710/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Mummerset|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 26, 2012|title=definition of Mummerset|work=oxforddictionaries.com|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|accessdate=6 November 2011))</ref>

The name is a [[portmanteau]] of [[Mummers Play|mummer]] (an archaic term for a folk actor) and [[Somerset]], a largely rural county.<ref name="OUP - oxforddictionaries.com - definition of Mummerset"/>

Mummerset draws on a mixture of characteristics of real dialects from the [[West Country]], such as [[Rhoticity in English|rhoticism]], forward-shifted [[diphthongs]], lengthened vowels, and the [[Voice (phonetics)|voicing]] of word-initial [[consonant]]s that are voiceless in other English dialects. Word-initial [[Voiceless alveolar sibilant|"S"]] is replaced with [[Voiced alveolar sibilant|"Z"]]; [[Voiceless labiodental fricative|"F"]] is replaced with [[Voiced labiodental fricative|"V"]].<ref name="OUP - Concise Oxford companion to the English language - Mummerset"/> It also uses perceived dialect grammar, replacing instances of "am", "are" and "is" with "be". The sentence "I haven't seen him, that  farmer, since Friday" could be parsed in Mummerset as "Oi ain't zeen 'im that be varmer zince Vroiday".<ref name="OUP - Concise Oxford companion to the English language - Mummerset"/>

Some speakers of [[East Anglian English]] have objected to media portrayals of characters from that area speaking in "a strange kind of stage Mummerset", as in the TV adaptation of [[P.D. James]]' [[Adam Dalgliesh]] novel ''Devices and Desires''.<ref>See for example "Television Diary: A broad question of a proper accent", ''[[The Stage|The Stage and Television Today]]'', 28 February 1991</ref>

==In literature==
A speech from Edgar in Shakespeare's ''[[King Lear]]'', before his fight with Oswald in Act IV, scene 6, has been described as an example of mummerset:<ref name="Laurie E. Maguire - Textual Formations & Reformations - page 156">((cite book|last=Maguire|first=Laurie E.|title=Textual Formations & Reformations|publisher=[[University of Delaware Press]]|date=January 5, 1998|pages=331|isbn=9780874136555|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9GGSlC9RwqcC&q=mummerset+%22King+Lear%22&pg=PA156|accessdate=13 Nov 2012))</ref><ref name="A Handbook of Varieties of English - The Dialects in the South of England - Altendorf  and Watt - page 197">((cite book|author=Ulrike Altendorf and Dominic Watt|title=A Handbook of Varieties of English|editor= Kortmann and Schneider|publisher=[[Walter de Gruyter]]|year=2004|isbn=9783110175325|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtd3a-56ysUC&q=mummerset+%22King+Lear%22&pg=PA198|accessdate=13 November 2012|display-editors=etal))</ref>
((poem quote|Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk pass. An ’chud ha’ bin
zwagger’d out of my life, ’t would not ha’bin zo long as ’tis by a vortnight. Nay, come not
near th’ old man; keep out, ’che vor ye, or Ise try whether your costard or my
ballow be the harder. ’Chill be plain with you.<ref name="bartleby.com - King Lear - Act IV Scene VI lines 230-233 ">((cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/46/3/46.html|title=William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Tragedy of King Lear. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.|publisher=[[Bartleby.com]]|accessdate=6 November 2011))</ref>))

==See also==
((Wiktionary|Mummerset))
*[[Farmer Palmer]]
*[[Mid-Atlantic English]]
*[[Mockney]]

==References==
((Reflist))

((English dialects by continent))

[[Category:Acting]]
[[Category:England in fiction]]
[[Category:English language in England]]
[[Category:Phonology]]
[[Category:West Country]]
[[Category:Fictional counties]]

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