Winnie The PoohLife is full of little mysteries, like what those black clumps on trees really are (nope, they’re not nests) and why towels have those flat, non-fluffy stripes (they’re called dobby borders, BTW). As a “fun fact” lover, I usually pride myself on knowing the answers to those everyday quandaries. But while scrolling through TikTok last night, I found myself stumped; “so Winnie... the Pooh... what the fuck’s a pooh?” a site user asked. While I might not have known the truth, though, Winnie The Pooh enthusiast (en-Pooh-siast?) Blake Silva did; and it’s a lot more complicated than I thought. What does the “Pooh” mean in Winnie The Pooh?Blake pointed to a book by Winnie The Pooh author AA Milne called When We Were Very Young. The 1924 book of poetry, which predated the Winnie The Pooh stories, contained
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