TMTM is loosely based off Dylan Thomas’ 1954 play ‘Undermilk Wood’, a play in which an omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing village, Llareggub - Bugger all spelt backwards[1]. TMTM is set in the town of Ffogob - Bog off spelled backwards.

It is imagined as a 21st century Llaregub. Both names work linguistically as Welsh town names, Like real places such as Llandudno or Llangranog and Ffostrasol or Ffos-y-ffin. ‘Môr’ is also the Welsh word for sea harkening the coastal setting and ‘the Merrier’ as it is a large cast of characters.

[1] This is called a ‘semordnilap’, A word that forms another word when its letters are reversed. ‘Semordnilap’ is a reversal of the more well-known word ‘palindrome’; a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same forwards and backwards.