It's POO not POOH

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Pooh is the bear- Winnie the Pooh.

Poo is shit.

When I was a child, it was always 'biz', as in business.

Oh wow, there's someone else in the world that knows of "biz!" I wonder if we're related! My dad grew up calling it a "biz" and so did we as kids, but I've never come across it anywhere else. In our family it was used exactly the same as "poo" - "I need a biz," "there's some cat's biz on the path," etc, etc. I ended up using "poo" with my own DC because I wanted them to use a word everyone could understand, but I still have a soft spot for "biz."

My MIL used to say "busy busy" to her dog when she wanted her to do a wee! I found this very confusing at first.

@MsFenellaFielding adults calling a toilet the potty does my head in, that along with panties creeps me out because it's infantilising everything.

Couldn't agree more! Pooh is the bear or the sticks.

I'm not overly fond of the world poo either if I'm honest, but I have a toddler so needs must.

“Potty shot” for gender reveal scans.

Especially don’t like them posted on open internet. I know it’s not the same but your basically posting a picture of your baby’s spread eagled legs and inviting randoms to inspect it’s genitals.

Just seems wrong to me.

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

I'm not suddenly using it. I've been using it for approximately 47 years, give or take. It's a, standard English word that has been used in all my memory in my corner of the UK.

Do you have a similar issue with 'forgotten'?

Oh god I hate bottom burp. I went to a catholic school and the nuns would tell you off if you used the word poo, burp or fart. Bottom burp and relaxing our bowels was allowed

My family always referred to it as a no 2 😂

Oh my god! Yes! Yanbu!

Scouser of Irish descent here. Poo for the children and in polite, civilised adult company, it's shite and it occurs in the shithouse.

@Luaanna

My family always referred to it as a no 2 😂

I used to call it an Embassy No. 2 when I was a smoker

Poo in public, jobby or shit at home

It's a "steaming pile of crap" or it's not even worth mentioning.

Yes I keep seeing this - why has this become so common??

@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.

@FoxtrotSkarloey in our house a fart is a toot.

Not to everyone's taste, but definitely friendlier than a fart.

I have nothing to add except that this is exactly the kind of thread I needed after a long evening of brain-numbing work

Someone upthread said "biz" and that's what we said when I was little. Then when I started working in a school the children there called it "doo-doos". My friend always called it doing a "mo" which was short for " motion"!

So when I was younger I was always taught it was pooh. Everyone I knew spelled it that way. I only ever saw the poo spelling as an adult - mainly around emojis. I genuinely thought maybe poo was the more American spelling. I am now wondering why I never knew this but then again I don't ever write about pooh/poo as an adult!

@Luaanna

Oh god I hate bottom burp. I went to a catholic school and the nuns would tell you off if you used the word poo, burp or fart. Bottom burp and relaxing our bowels was allowed

"Relaxing our bowels"

Huh, lol, surely that is actually shitting.

This reminds me of someone I used to work with who when their children were small used the term "bottom burp" instead of trump. It just sounds worse than trump, it makes me feel ill

I think you mean she used "bottom burp" instead of fart.

I went to a catholic school and the nuns would tell you off if you used the word poo, burp or fart. Bottom burp and relaxing our bowels was allowed

My nan went to a Nun school and also used "bottom burp"... I did wonder where it came from. Sounds so much more disgusting and graphic than fart.

"Pooh" is to dismiss; as in to pooh-pooh someone; see also "oh pooh" as a response to somebody that has said something of little consequence.

Poo is the brown stinky stuff.

My Nana used to call it a 'Big Job'. I used that today in front of the DC and they fell about laughing.

It's poo in this house and 'pops' for farts as my parents used to dislike the word fart and we were told not to say it and it appears to have stuck with me.

@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.

Fart is perfectly acceptable, but if you don't want it used in that way, you need to teach him not to tell everyone when you've farted, or stop farting around him.

When I was at school it was big job or jobby
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My parents would say no.2 as they couldn’t bring themselves to say anything they considered vulgar.

Pooh is a much loved bear.

Don’t get me started on ‘go potty’. I’m on a Facebook page about Labrador dogs whose American owners often ask about puppy training and taking them outside for toilet training.
The term drives me insane.

I genuinely thought maybe poo was the more American spelling.

I think it's always "poop" in America!