To ask why people type pooh instead of poo?

[maytheoddsbeeverinyourfavour]

This is not a dig, my spelling and grammar are in no way good enough to enable me to critise other peoples and the fecking iPad doesn't help either

But I would really like to know why people use pooh instead of poo? Where did it come from? As far as I'm aware pooh is only the name of the bear, when did it become interchangeable with poo?

Who gives a shit?

See I couldn't even get through the op without making a mistake

worra

But to answer your question

I don't know

I always think of 'poo' as being crap and 'pooh' as the smell it makes?

As in "Pooh, that stinks"

I blame Winnie!!

Because they are Awfully Odd.

I always thought it was the prissy version, like heck, feck, shite, titties etc.

Poo is shit

Pooh is Winnie The's surname or an expression of disgust.

I think people just try to make it less gross by spelling it pooh so that they get a mental image of the bear rather than of actual poo

YANBU it has always annoyed me too.

Oh I think the crap and smell theory makes poofect sense in an odd sort of way. If one is forced to consider it because there is nothing else to do on the train home.

But I think they are interchangeable.

Ah I see cuppa and firawla, it's the naice way to type poo and I've now shown myself up as a pleb

AND while we're on the suubject can peope please settle somethng for me? I was once in a loo in a shopping centre when a woman came in with her small DS...she took him into a cubicle and I was in mine and could clearly hear her saying "Do you want to dirt Tommy? Do you want to DIRT??" and I thought EH???

Has anyone ever heard of this before?

Oh no! I say pooh. Am prissy. Damn.

I do also say fuck, wank, cunt and bollocks. Does that balance it out?

Ok can we try to put this to bed again. Feck is not a polite version of fuck. They are entirely different words. Just 'cos Fr Ted used it a lot. It didn't mean he wanted to swear but couldn't. He said it because he was Irish and it originates in Ireland.

I think it matters not

So what is feck then?

I know that Gwendoline - if an Irish person says feck, they mean feck. If an English person says it though, they mean fuck, and they're just being prissy.

Sorry Janice, I wasnt targeting you personally :) just having a general mini rant. You're probably right about the English usage.

Feck is the Irish way of politely saying fuck. Irish people like profanities so much they need a non offensive term to use because most Irish people are actually quite posh behind the fecks and the eejets and the blaggards and the holy sainteffing josephs.

I think originally it meant "to steal" but has sort of morphed to be a general, pretty mild expletive. Definitely not fuck-lite!!

Pooh sounds likes something the Famous Five would say.

TheSpoken Nerd yes, a neighbour's little girl used "dirt". Also had a friend who used the word "mo" (short for motion!) and another who always said "doo-doos"!Both said they hated the word "poo"......

Just use the excellent Scottish word jobby instead.