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Mummerset|ˈmʌməsɛt|
Also Mummersetshire.
[Modelled on Somerset(shire), and perh. influenced by mummer.]
An imaginary rustic county in the West of England, and its dialect, invented by actors.
1951J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. ii. 219 ‘Az tew Papular Antertainment,’ he drawled in his best Mummerset. 1952Granville Dict. Theatrical Terms 120 An adviser on regional dialect helps the cast to reach a mean which has earned the jocular nickname Mummersetshire, or actor's dialect. 1957[see honestly adv. 2 b]. 1961Punch 15 Mar. 411/2 Stage yokels from Mummerset. 1961Times 19 June 13/4 How long must we wait for a dialect dictionary in one combined volume with pronunciations in Barsetshire and Mummerset? 1965Listener 25 Oct. 640/3 The characters did speak real dialect, and not Mummerset. 1966D. Blakelock Eleanor x. 77 That exaggerated, bogus country dialect known to actors as ‘Mummerset’. 1966C. Mackenzie Paper Lives viii. 114 Nowadays you can't be sure if they are eggs, even when somebody on television says they are in B.B.C. Mummerset. 1968N. Marsh Clutch of Constables viii. 203, I sat in the Northumberland Arms..listening to the dullest brand of Mummerset-type gossip. 1970Guardian 26 Mar. 11/3 The straight English is often sloppy and soft; and throughout there is often a damp sprinkling of mummersetshire such as was never heard or spoken. 1971Times 16 Feb. 10/2 Philip Grout's production selflessly follows the spirit of the piece: it is all Mummerset and wagging bottoms, slack jaws and graceless tussles. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 220/2 Ordinary people in British war films became more than lovable Cockneys, Mummerset rustics, or Bunny Doyle Northerners full of blunt common sense. |