to be mildly irritated with "pooh" meaning "poo"?

[Just5minswithDacre]

Is it intended to be genteel?

Poor Winnie is being tainted

Just me then?

YANBU gets right on my tits.

YANBU, but I never see it around these days.

It doesn't really bother me but the spelling of 'honey' does. DS has a Winnie the Pooh friendship treasury book and right on the front is a picture of a honey pot with 'hunny' written on it that annoys a me more than it should.

You must have missed the epic thread dowager. Good move

Don't understand the objection.
'Pooh' is just the original spelling for what you say when something stinks - 'Pooh!' or for 'pooh-pooh-ing' something, I.e rubbishing it. It was never just Winnie-the-P's name.

As a kid I used to wonder why on earth anyone would give their teddy a name with stinky Pooh in it. Did he smell, or what?

I use the word pooh rather than poo, no idea why

Yanbu. It annoys me.

I always thought that "hunny" was written like that because in the books Winnie the Pooh couldn't spell.

No Winnie didn't smell! The very idea

Yy beelover.

No idea how Winnie got his name.

Me too bee

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh/history

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh

Named after a bear called Winnie and a swan called Pooh. Apparently.

I thought I was the only one. I get serious actual rage at the computer when I see it, which is even worse than using the word pooh. Why stress myself over something so pointless? But I really can't help it - it's POO. Not a nice cuddly slightly dim bear.

In the original illustrations for the Winnie The Pooh books, by E H Shepherd, he had spelt honey as 'hunny' on the honey pot. Just as he misspelled some other words in other illustrations - because the WTP character written by A A Milne was "... naive and slow-witted, but he is also friendly, thoughtful, and steadfast. Although he and his friends agree that he "has no Brain", so, presumably, AAM wrote the misspellings in his books too, to indicate that WTP wasn't very bright!

Hunny isn't bad spelling for a bear of very little brain when you think about it

I should have put a trigger warning in the title Mard .

At risk of making you feel worse, how do you feel about "tele" instead of "telly"?

Just say jobby.

I must confess I thought for years that pooh was just another word for poo.

Why on earth did A A Milne call his cuddly bear Pooh?

It's like calling a cartoon character Anusa or Urinette or something

Can I ask about the thread last night please? I'm assuming that is what prompts this thread! Was it deleted? Poo troll?

It's fine, as long as you also use 'shite' instead of 'shit'.
HTH!

YANBU

This annoys me too.

DH insists that back when the original books were written, "pooh" meant "silly", so they're calling him a silly bear, rather than suggesting he's a smelly bear who's fallen in a toilet or one who is named after a poo.

Even if DH is right, I still don't like the whole Winnie the Pooh name.

Yeah poo is poo - is "pooh" something you do in a private school?