What is a “pooh bear”?
No. His name is Winnie ther Pooh. I remember that from the books. (SEMI-Off-topic: at a memorial for my father, who died last April in N’Hampsha we had some Don Bousquet cartoon collections — which Dad loved. I pointed one out to my brother Bill, of some cars and trucks going into a tunnel with a sign beside it: “Entering New England. Begin dropping ‘r”s.” Bill immediately shot back with, “No. We can’t drop ‘r”s because we need them for our idears.” Dropping Rs is a general Northern New England dialect thing while superfluous rs like idear is specifically Rhode Island — the former would be N’Hampsha or the old “You can’t get theah from heah”. So when I read Winnie ther Pooh it just made sense and I’ve found myself occasionally wondering why people get it wrong, even though A. A. Milne used that name — Winnie the Pooh — a lot). Christopher Robin Milne was a real boy/man. He had a teddy bear named Winnie, after Winnipeg, a bear in the London Zoo which was named after the place she
