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.
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:
See also
- Farmer Palmer
- Mockney