I need to complain about the Mumsnet email for 21-month-olds and their misspelling of POO

[castille]

There are dozens of mentions of pooh and poohing.

Pooh is a bear. Poohing is pottering about Hundred Acre Wood with Piglet humming Hums.

Bother.

[MargaretMountford]

best have a smackerel of hunny to cheer you up

[PixelHerder]

oh god yes - I was off to start this thread myself, am glad I'm not the only one. It's twee and irritating.

Sadly it seems to be popular as an alternative spelling, I have a baby book in which the nappy-changing section is annoyingly littered with 'pooh'.

Bah to pooh!

[Twiglett]

OMgoodG .. standards are slipping terribly aren't they?

[PixelHerder]

PS The article was v helpful though, thanks!

[maidamess]

Well, I ALWAYS spell it pooh. So ya booh sucks to yooh.

[singersgirl]

Well, this topic has come up before here. You all of course know that 'pooh' is the original spelling and the relatively recent variant 'poo' is not even given as an alternative in my 1991 Collins dictionary, as I said in that post. Note too this link.

I've seen it suggested that the 'poo' spelling derives from the American 'poop', but it is not standard British English spelling.

So sorry to outpedant pedants but you are all wrong. Mwah hah hah hah hah .

(I'll insert here the caveat about language constantly developing and changing etc...)

[PixelHerder]

Ah, there you go then, thoroughly outpedanted.

My dictionary features neither poo nor pooh in relation to faeces, so I thought both were slang. 'Pooh' just seems cringey and wrong for some reason. May I propose 'shite' as an official alternative?