Winnie the Pooh? What's with that?

Question

Think lateral or logically if you wish, this isn't a serious question. I was thinking today why is Winnie the Pooh called Winnie the Pooh? Is he a descendant of the Pooh's? Why the Pooh's? Who are the Pooh's? If you actually know historical information that would be great as well but imaginative thinking is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

So far none of the previous answers have attempted to answer the question, which was what the "pooh" part signified. Galactic Hermit the question didn't ask for a book about how the bear was named "winnie."

I am not sure but I'm remembering WAAAAY back in my brain that "Pooh" was a sound the bear made when he fell down on his fat gut one day, and Christopher Robin decided to add that to his name.

I don't know how I remember that but it seems to come from one of the Disney adaptations, or the book. May or may not be true.

Or maybe just possibly it means the poor bear is a piece of crap...

ok now I remember the story from coolvibe's link as well, but come on, coolvibe... using wikis to answer yahoo questions is unprofessional

Answer 2

There is a LOT of question on this... the best site I have found is..
http://www.pooh-corner.com/pooh.html

It gives some detail you may not know... such as

Christopher Robin.... is REAL!!!!!
Winnie is most probably derived from the town of Winnipeg, MB Canada

Pooh Bears is what they were called before Theodore "Teddy" Rosevelt. A Pooh Bear was dressed up like him and given away as Teddy Bears. This was seen as much better than shakeing hands with kids. After that ALL bears became known as Teddy Bears...Excpent for ONE.. Winnie The Pooh.

Answer 3

Winnie-the-Pooh, referred to as Pooh, and once as 'Edward Bear', is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. He appears in the books Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included several poems about Winnie-the-Pooh in the children’s poetry books When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

Answer 4

The bear is from Winnipeg Canada, as for the pooh part, it was just a name given to the character by the son of the author.

Answer 5

During the first World War troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way overseas to Europe where they should join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her 'Winnipeg', after his hometown of Winnipeg, or 'Winnie' for short.

Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Lt. Colebourn took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. Formally Colebourn presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where it became a popular attraction and lived until 1934.

The bear was also very popular by Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. It was his favorite at the zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie.... Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name of Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in a poem from Milne's When We Were Very Young.

A.A. Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and their friends at 100-Aker-Wood. These other characters, such as Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo were also based on stuffed animals belonging to Christopher Robin. Other characters as Rabbit and Owl were based on animals that lived, just like the swan Pooh, in the surrounding area of Milne's country home Cotchford Farm in Ashdown Forest, Sussex, on which 100-Aker-wood was based.

'Winnie-the-Pooh' was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, the verses 'Now We are Six' in 1927, and 'The House at Pooh Corner' in1928. All these books were illustrated in a beautiful way by E.H. Shepard, which made the books even more magical. The Pooh-books became firm favourites with old and young alike and have been translated into almost every known language. A conservative figure for the total sales of the four Methuen editions (including When We Were Very Young) up to the end of 1996 would be over 20 million copies. These figures do not include sales of the four books published by Dutton in Canada and the States, nor the foreign-language editions printed in more than 25 languages the world over!

The Pooh-books had also been favourites of Walt Disney's daughters and it inspired Disney to bring Pooh to film in 1966. In 1977 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the first feature-length animated film of Pooh was released. In 1993, the Walt Disney Company acknowledged that Pooh Bear is second only to Mickey Mouse in their portfolio of the most-loved and trusted characters known to millions of people all the world over. By 1996, after the second release of 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the Bear of Very Little Brain had proved to be more popular than any other Disney character. In 1997, thirty years after the release of 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', Disney released 'Pooh's Grand Adventure', picking up where Disney's 22nd Masterpiece left off.

Answer 6

Because, as Christopher Robin said, that's his name.

Answer 7

This link should provide the answers you seek :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_the_Pooh