It's POO not POOH

[poshme]

Pooh is the bear- Winnie the Pooh.

Poo is shit.

*slowly backs away from this thread before breaking into a run.

I always thought it was pooh and that people spelling it poo were wrong. Was definitely not being ‘cutesy’

Sorry people 💩

@CharitySchmarity

I genuinely thought maybe poo was the more American spelling.

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

I thought poop was more of a slang of poo so they used both and now I am questioning everything haha

@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.

My Nan used to call farts a mouse. Once she said "who has done a mouse...that was more like a RAT"

My Dad used to say S, H, 1, T, even after we learnt to spell

@CharitySchmarity -
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.
This was from Barbara Woodhouse dog (torture) training. It was on TV in the 1970/80’s. Awful to watch, and very much parodied.

4DDs means they've all at 1 stage had multiple pairs of Winnie the Pooh slippers or trainers- family joke has been to go "Oh no! Quick look, you've got Pooh on your shoe!"
Que panicked 4 year old dancing foot to foot looking at undersides before slowly realising they've fallen for it yet again, scowling & moaning "Daaaaaaaad!"

As a child we were allowed to say Wee-wee, Number 2, and Bottomburp.
We've brought DC up using Wee, Poo, Pop-pop or Raspberry.

Off subject, but I remember my mum going berserk at me for flopping on sofa exclaiming "I'm knackered", adamant it was awful swearing/ derived from "Off to the knackers yard" so also tempting fate so doubly-bad to say?!
DMum is an Eastender born in 40s, wonder if that's a regional thing?

We said tod. I can always remember my mother complaining about the number of dog tods on the pavement.

Think this was the Yorkshire pronunciation of turd because we also said bod for bird and bont for burnt.

A friend’s dh always called it big jobs.

I once nearly wet myself laughing when she wanted to ask him something - he was in the loo - and I heard, ‘Oh, do go away darling! I’m doing big jobs!’ 😄

Here we can buy Icecream called Pooh bear. Basically vanilla icecream with honeycomb. My dn wasn't sure about eating pooh icecream as he thought it was icecream with poo in it. He was from overseas

Turd is the word

But yes, Pooh is the bear.

Hate plop.

Somebody needed to say it

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
Either is acceptable if you're referring to the POTUS.

I have never seen 'pooh' except in relation to the bear.

I find that poo creates problems when you want to add suffixes, pooing? pooed? It looks bizarre to me with the triple vowel. ..Still better than pooh though. And tele I always thought was people being pretencious and Francais!

I hate that bloody cutesy bear. Brings shit into disrepute.

As a child we weren't allowed say wee or poo, it was water and dirt. No word for fart as such things weren't spoken of.

DH has taught DD to use snotter rather than bogey which I don't love. Don't mind snot, but don't like snotter.

And yes, gotten is perfectly correct and frequently used in both Ireland and Scotland.

Yanbu. It's a jobbie.

@nachthexe
It’s only crept in over the last thirty years as education standards have cratered.

It was 'poo' when I was very little, and I was born in 1954.

@starfish88

I find that poo creates problems when you want to add suffixes, pooing? pooed? It looks bizarre to me with the triple vowel

I have a solution for you - 'poop', 'pooping', 'pooped'.

Though 'pooped' also means dog tired.

('Poop' is indeed American, CharitySchmarity).

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
'Toot', or if - ehem - blowing a Nor'easter, 'honk'.

And booger.

All good, solid (and also gaseous) Americanisms.

I've found my people!

Pooh and Poop both make me cringe so hard.

My toddler DD does say "Poo poo" but she's cute enough to just about pull it off.

[quote mathanxiety]@starfish88

I find that poo creates problems when you want to add suffixes, pooing? pooed? It looks bizarre to me with the triple vowel

I have a solution for you - 'poop', 'pooping', 'pooped'.

Though 'pooped' also means dog tired.

('Poop' is indeed American, CharitySchmarity).[/quote]
That's normally my go to but it clearly upsets quite a lot of mumsnetters!

A lot of mumsnetters have a bee in their bonnet about all things American, or even things suspected of being American (Hallowe'en, for instance).

Pay no heed.

I believe there was once a Chinese translation of the A A Milne books where he became Winnie the Shit. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it somehow.

Absolutely agree, drives me mad, it's already an ok term to use, no need to cutsy it up, yuck!