*This is the correct spelling, as virtually nobody who employs the phrase (usually in a hilarious scatological context) ever bothers to check. If you're planning to drop this warmly archaic and poetically unusual term into an article and are worried you might slip up and look like the worst sort of cretin: they who are smug and wrong: why not try this helpful mnemonic? "Pooh-pooh an idea; Winnie the Pooh; otherwise no H. Get it right or I'll smash your face in."

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