sandyhas3chucks Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 being "one of those" i too like to get it right & was interested to read someone say that Pooh was pooh bear & poo is excrement. So I though ooo really ? I & looked it up. My dictionary has no poo but does list pooh as an expressing impatience or contempt or slang for excrement. It isn't a tiddly one it is a fat oxford one. Dictionary that is not pooh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I always thought Pooh was a bear of little brain Cambridge dictionary has poo UK noun (US poop) CHILD'S WORD (a piece of) excrement: Ugh, it looks like poo! Have you done a poo, Ellie? pooh exclamation INFORMAL said when you smell something unpleasant: Pooh! Something stinks in here. I don't think it matters. You look at the context. If I held my nose I would have spelt it pooooooooooooo Perhaps I should now put an h on the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 pooh 1593, "a 'vocal gesture' expressing the action of puffing anything away" [OED], first attested in Hamlet Act I, Scene III, where Polonius addresses Ophelia with, "Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, / Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. / Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?" I think Shakespeare predates A.A. Milne doesn't he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I wonder how the queen spells it? Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 She doesn't. She get an equerry to do it for her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I actually speed read the subject and thought you were talking about selling poo I really should take my time reading these things. I started to think great I can make money out of the chickens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sandyhas3chucks Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 facinating, never knew ther were so many plonkers just like me about. I love you guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Lu-verly I worked with a Doctors receptionist who couldnt spell DIARRHOEA so she used to put S--T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I've heard of pooh! as an exclamation al la Shakespeare (poopoohing an idea- however thats spelt!) or as in pooh! That smells but I still think its poo and wee. To be honest I had never come across it spelt pooh for excrement until the last couple of years, I'm wondering if its a regional thing that I've noticed it more since internet forums etc. Obviously I had friends from all around the country before but might never have seen how they wrote poo/pooh. In fact i seems to be mainly this forum I've discovered it on. I'm with the cambridge dictionary Oh and of course the Queen says poo. I speak the Queens English doncha know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyhas3chucks Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 I've heard of pooh! as an exclamation al la Shakespeare (poopoohing an idea- however thats spelt!) or as in pooh! That smells but I still think its poo and wee. To be honest I had never come across it spelt pooh for excrement until the last couple of years, I'm wondering if its a regional thing that I've noticed it more since internet forums etc. Obviously I had friends from all around the country before but might never have seen how they wrote poo/pooh. In fact i seems to be mainly this forum I've discovered it on. I'm with the cambridge dictionary Oh and of course the Queen says poo. I speak the Queens English doncha know i think it may be as we are so interested in it, it therfore gets written do wn more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poohcorner Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Maybe we should change our name? Didn't think much about it until one of you said that Pooh Corner was a good name for a chicken keeper. It's the name of the house - after the Bear, not the result. Great debate! The garden is becoming poo corner (and pooh!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 .......and Winnie the Pooh's birthday is 14th October, same as my Anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I don't think I've ever known anyone discuss poo (that's my preferred spelling) with so much enthusiasm as Omleteers! As far as I'm concerned, Pooh is the bear, who obviously is a cuddly, honey-scoffing old fella and nothing at all to do with the rather inconvenient but fundamentally useful stuff that comes out of chickens' rear ends. PS I used to know a man who cleaned the Queen's toilet. Yes, she DOES go to the loo like everyone else and she used to leave skid marks, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 PS I used to know a man who cleaned the Queen's toilet. Yes, she DOES go to the loo like everyone else and she used to leave skid marks, too! My Dad has heard her break wind. Honest. He used to be a Guards bandsman and was on duty at the Palace, rehearsing before a garden party. Her Majesty passed them by with corgis in tow, whilst the men were on a break, and an audible trumping was heard. Dad is SURE it wasn't a corgi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Pooh or Poo! Has anyone ever been to the Pooh Sticks World Champoinships? OH & I went a couple of years ago and it was fab, i even made it to the second round!!! Might go again this year now we have Isabelle as its a great day out Have a look here if you fancy going http://www.pooh-sticks.com/index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 He used to be a Guards bandsman and was on duty at the Palace, rehearsing before a garden party. Her Majesty passed them by with corgis in tow, whilst the men were on a break, and an audible trumping was heard. Dad is SURE it wasn't a corgi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Why was Pooh called Pooh because of his P...s. It's biggies from now on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 hristopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a bear which he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday Now I want to know why the swan was called Pooh. Maybe it made that noise! In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh": "But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think - but I am not sure - that that is why he is always called Pooh. Even worse than any insinuation that Edward Bear was named after excrement is the idea that there is a girl in the stories and that they have American accents!! Since when has Sussex been in the US Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Even worse than any insinuation that Edward Bear was named after excrement is the idea that there is a girl in the stories and that they have American accents!! Since when has Sussex been in the US Oh, I so agree ... can't bear to watch that hideous caricature of my childhood friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyknickers Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 This is so funny. Off with your heads! Its Pooh to me - in fact when we were 'told off' for putting pooh I have started typing 'poo' but going to go back to 'pooh' now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Maybe it is a regional thing? I have always used poo for the waste material and pooh for the bear. In the medical lab where I work we always spell it poo for faeces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Takes me back. When my daughter and her friends were little saying poo would provoke gales of laughter. Such gorgeous innocent laughter. Makes me smile to recall it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Takes me back.When my daughter and her friends were little saying poo would provoke gales of laughter. Such gorgeous innocent laughter. Makes me smile to recall it. I don't think I've ever grown past that faze. My work colleagues hang their heads in shame at me some days, as I find bodily functions just as amusing now as I did then . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I've just tidied this thread - it wasn't too bad........but was rapidly heading that way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
