Marmee is probably Louisa May Alcott's version of "Mommie". She was non-rhotic; meaning she and her fellow New Englanders did not pronounce their Rs. So she would have pronounced Marmee as "Mommy". "Mommy," the American pet name for "Mother", hadn't been written out in formal literature yet. Mark Twain had used "Ma" and "Pa" in Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, but no one had written out "Mommy" in a big formal book like this; this was the first one. Alcott's New Englander guess at that spelling was "Marmee". Although the movie's actors use the pronunciation "Mar-mee", it should be pronounced "Mah-mee".

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