To wonder why so many people spell poo as pooh on MN

[KellyElly]

Is it a joke I have missed? Is it now an alternative spelling to poo? To me 'poo' is what comes out of your bum and 'pooh' is a bear called Winnie . Someone enlighten me please!

Poo and yoghurt in the same thread makes me feel a bit sick.

My favourite recent mis-spelling was someone describing how unfair life is and said 'It's a doggy dog world'

Brilliant

i am old - and I've always spelt it 'pooh'. Have seen 'poo' creeping in in the last 10-15 years or so.

But I usually have a crap or smell shit.

Rather than use the poo/h word. I've always thought it was for children.

It bloody spelled yogurt too - I can't believe it. All these years I've been spelling it wrong...

Tesco's products spell it YOGURT.

I prefer the correct spelling

Isn't yoghurt the English spelling and yogurt the US spelling?

Back to the good old Oxford Dictionary Yogurt can also be spelled yoghurt or yoghourt: all three are correct.

You can tell I'm just snowed under at work today

Those of us who are a tad older were taught pooh and yoghurt.

I was always taught 'pooh' and regarded 'poo' as newfangled.

The full OED online lists 'pooh' as a noun meaning 'Excrement, faeces', noting 'Now usu. in form poo'. 'Poo' is not listed separately for this meaning. So they are acknowledging that a change of spelling has become predominant, but the OED is very much anchored in 'pooh'.

Always thought it was poo=shit
Pooh=disgust Pooh=bear of very little brain

And it's definitely yogHurt

yoghurt here too.

am reeling at the thought of yoghurty pooh

I think some people consider 'poo' to be vulgar, and spell it 'pooh' because they think its nicer and fluffier. Or something.

Its poo!

Oh god, yes. It drives me nuts. Grrrr.

I THOUGHT Poo was an Americanism

I write pooh, tis correct. so there

and yoghurt

but I am not a tad older, at all

I thought pooh was the Americanism and poo was the English spelling (to differentiate from Pooh, innit).

There is clearly some confusion here beyond any of our wildest dreams.

I am right though

but winnie the pooh was written before American was discovered

and he is winnie the pooh because he is the colour of pooh

Really? He's actually Winnie the Poo? Who knew?

"its a doggy dog world"

that is brilliant! i may have to start saying that instead

You need a Tupperware and Gillian McKeith if your poo is the same colour as Winnie. He's a bit 'newborn nappy'.

He's not the colour of poo(h). He was a goldenish colour, Christopher Robin's (Christopher Milne's) bear is still around.
Unless of course your poo(h)s are an odd colour

have googled and it seems I am wrong tis poo, pooh apparently is childish.

however whenever I google poo it automatically replaces it with poop. where did that come from

He was called Pooh because he had to blow flies off his nose because his arms wouldn't bend
People need to read more

InlovewithDavidTennant

I laugh every time I think of it.