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Mummersetnoun
an invented English language dialect used by actors that mimics a stereotypical English Southern rural accent
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Mummerset
Mummerset is a fictional English dialect supposedly spoken in a rustic English county of the same name. Mummerset is used by actors to represent a stereotypical English West Country accent while not specifically referencing any particular county.The name is a portmanteau of mummer (an archaic term for a folk actor) and Somerset, a largely rural county.Mummerset draws on a mixture of characteristics of real dialects from the West Country, such as rhoticism, forward-shifted diphthongs, lengthened vowels, and the voicing of word-initial consonants that are voiceless in other English dialects. Word-initial "S" is replaced with "Z"; "F" is replaced with "V". 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 since Vroiday".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.
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Mummerset
Mummerset refers to a fictional rustic English county, and more commonly, the English dialect supposedly spoken there. Mummerset is used by actors to represent a stereotypical English West Country accent while not being specific to any actual county. The name is a play on words: it is a portmanteau of "mummer", an archaic term for a folk actor, and the name of the largely rural county of Somerset. Mummerset draws on a mixture of characteristics of real dialects from the West Country, such as rhoticism, forward-shifted diphthongs, lengthened vowels, and voicing of consonants that are voiceless in other English dialects. "S" is replaced with "Z"; "F" is replaced with "V" 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 since Vroiday".
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mummerset in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mummerset in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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