It's POO not POOH

[poshme]

Pooh is the bear- Winnie the Pooh.

Poo is shit.

Got to love The Viz 😂

I say "crap"

Friend said when he was little it was called "doing your duty". He said he thought it was a made up word, spelt as "jooty" !

@HardAsSnails

Err, no, it's not.

The use of 'poo' is quite recent IME.

What?

That's utter nonsense.

Unless you call 50 years 'recent'

It's also Clark's not Clarke's.

Another that is extremely annoying.

@LightDrizzle

Yes! Pooh is the name of the bear. Pooh sticks are sticks thrown in the river upstream of a bridge to see which emerges first from the other side. Poo is the very common colloquial and child-friendly word for shit/faeces.

Poo Sticks are what you get shortly after your 60th birthday for bowel cancer screening. You young people have that to look forward to.

@allthewaterinthetap

Somebody needed to say it

I wish someone would say, it not que, it's queue.

Que panicked 4 year old dancing foot to foot looking at undersides

It's cue, not que. Sorry, but see that so much on here!

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER so it was actually pooh originally?! Fascinating!!

@SlopesOff don't you mean it's cue not queue? It's to cue, like in a play. If you're referring to the same sentence I was above

@GroundAlmonds

Agreed.

See also “tele” instead of telly.

Also vege

Definitely writing tele instead of telly.

If I'm shortening something for convenience only then going for the less convenient option seems pretty stupid

Lense

I knew an American puppy who kept going to the bathroom in the house. I was impressed until I realised he was having a crafty widdle inside, and was supposed to go to the bathroom outside.
It is poo. No h.

As a kid I referred to farts as "blow offs" 🤣🤣
Yes it is poo, jobby, shit but no pooh

I do use tele for tv - I thought it was more old fashioned way of writing it and got it off my grandad

My step dad always called it “dropping the kids in the pool” when we went to spend 45 minutes in the bathroom (hiding) reading the paper while having a crap.

I hate 'telly'. I've tried 'tele' but 'television' is the one for me. Except that I don't have one so it's iplayer or nothing.

With you 100%

I'd like to bring my mother's name for farts to the thread:

Creepy mouse. As in "have you just done a creepy mouse?"

She doesn't understand why I've refused to ever use this word with my dc. I'm sure she thinks fart is an actual swearword.

Yes @MustardMitt vege puts me on edge (same with tele)

Poo is fine, bit twee maybe in some contexts.

Pooh is a bear that likes hunny.

Hunny is something a yellow bear called Pooh eats, everyone else eats Honey.

Fart is a fart, but at my primary school 'pump' was the word for fart and I hated it from being a very tiny little grammar/language snob because its beyond YUCK... pump/pumped... fuck offfffffff.

Tele, vege and anyone who still writes 'phone all need to be fired into the sea.

Yes to poo! I mean, yes to the word, not “hooray for faeces”. Pooh is awful, poop even worse.

The one that gets me is “water infection” for a UTI. So unbearably coy I didn’t know what it referred to when I first heard it.

@ViciousJackdaw I wish there was an applause emoji for this

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

I don’t like the term ‘whoopsie’. Wee or poo. 🔨

Just started my own thread in Pedants corner and been redirected here. My people!

@kiwiblue

SlopesOff don't you mean it's cue not queue? It's to cue, like in a play. If you're referring to the same sentence I was above

Yes, you are correct and I thought about it after I had posted but was getting so hacked off with the notifications thing that kept popping up that I gave up posting and didn't bother to add it. I also noticed a typo in my post.

So, que does not equate to cue, queue or Kew. Imagine Que Gardens in the Spring, lots of lovely flours.