It's POO not POOH

[poshme]

Pooh is the bear- Winnie the Pooh.

Poo is shit.

This is reminding me of my friend’s gran who used to refer to ‘windy-bindies’ instead of burps

My mum refuses to say fart and insists on “fluff”.

DP has a story from when he was five - there was a large pile of 'stuff' in the field opposite their cottage and his very respectable and well spoken grandmother said 'Oh, goodness, that's a lot of manure' - he piped up with (in his broad Devon accent) 'Man-yure? At school, we call that Shit'.

@HardAsSnails sorry but you are wrong.

Poo is not recent.

YANBU!

It's about time someone pointed this out.

I hate gotten as well. Why is everyone suddenly using it?

I prefer jobbies, shit or poo but of all three jobbies is my favorite. Showing my Scottish roots here though!

Yeessss I have found my people! I itch to correct it every time someone’s writes Pooh when they mean poo!

When I was a child, it was always 'biz', as in business. Mothers would shout to their children ''Ave yer dun yer business?' or ''Ave yer dun yer biz?' Everyone said it, everyone knew what it meant.

I hated it. Still do.

@FoxtrotSkarloey

I've missed this completely. People purposely use pooh instead of poo? Why? Weirdos.

But if anyone has better terminology for bogey and fart, that would be helpful! Not looking to be cute, but now my two year old can talk, him telling the world 'Mummy farted' is not ideal.

You could go with ‘raspberry’ for fart - from the cockney ‘raspberry tart’

And I hate poop - American, Pooh -that's a bear. 'Number Twos' - feck off!
I don't have a word for it! It's unspeakable. Ineffable. No effin' words for it.

Oh god I nearly came on here the other day to write this post!

I'm absolutely with you.

I'm 46 and it never never had an h at the end, ever.

It makes me cross too

It’s not Winnie The Shit

You plonkers

Poo is not pooh

Enid Blyton wrote pooh, so it will always be pooh to me. Poo always looks unfinished to me, and slangy.

Not quite connected but while watching The Real Housewives of Orange County, a couple of the Housewives referred to going "to the potty".

I'm in my 50s and going on the potty was where toilet-training toddler visited, not a grown woman. Yack.

Well, my family have always used the word trump for fart but recent history has spoiled that one.

Comes to something when a rotten fart making you think of a specific human being is worse than smelling it.

Well, since you ask....

‘Pooh’ is listed in my very big fat Oxford dictionary as

1. an exclamation at an unpleasant smell
2. a noun, excrement
3. a verb, (to) defecate.

‘Poo’ is listed as a variant spelling of ‘Pooh’.

‘poop’ is listed as an informal N. American term for excrement (noun) and (to) defecate, verb.

There you go.

I prefer turd. Proper Old English, that is.

(Oh, and my parents always called farts 'windypops')

Enid Blyton wrote 'Pooh?' [faints]

Or was that an exclamation of dismay made when her characters wrinkled up their noses because they'd smelled something bad? I always wondered how the Famous Five managed to go on so many wild camping trips with no facility blocks anywhere in sight and not one character apparently needing to take a dump.

Including the dog.

Pooh means excrement. It's also a bear. So it's both!

I'll never forget the time I was called into the year 1 classroom about my middle son saying a 'rude' word. He had said poo! I found it rather hard to stop myself from laughing.

Well, my family have always used the word trump for fart but recent history has spoiled that one.
All the more appropriate, then!

Poo is shit. Pooh is the name of a bear.

Poop is the Americanism for poo (shit).

As for fart, we call it fart a fart in this house. Always have. I've no problem with that.

Several of my friends when I was at school referred to farts as trumps. So when Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States of America in 2016 he immediately became known as President Fart. And so he has proven to be.

Lol sorry. ‘Poo’ is a lazy variant used by the people that dot their ‘i’s with little hearts. It’s twee and ridiculous.
It’s only crept in over the last thirty years as education standards have cratered.
‘Poo’ is literally the twee equivalent of ‘tinkle’.
Use the h. Stand up for tradition and stop the inexorable slide into the educational abyss.

@hennaoj

I'll never forget the time I was called into the year 1 classroom about my middle son saying a 'rude' word. He had said poo! I found it rather hard to stop myself from laughing.

I'd have offered to teach him to call it shit or crap.