I don't have copies of the Pooh books here, so no way of checking - I hate to say it, but are your copies definitely the original language editions? For some ridiculous reasons alot of American publishers have decided that Americans aren't quite bright enough to work out what some words mean (like "mum" instead of "mom", for instance), and alot of English books are "translated" into American... *headdesk* Although I'm guessing that's a more modern thing, so Pooh should surely be intact...
Maybe it's one of those words that crossed to the US and then stuck that way, when people dropped it over here? Or maybe it's more used in a particular part of England, and crossed from there.
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I don't have copies of the Pooh books here, so no way of checking - I hate to say it, but are your copies definitely the original language editions? For some ridiculous reasons alot of American publishers have decided that Americans aren't quite bright enough to work out what some words mean (like "mum" instead of "mom", for instance), and alot of English books are "translated" into American... *headdesk* Although I'm guessing that's a more modern thing, so Pooh should surely be intact...
Maybe it's one of those words that crossed to the US and then stuck that way, when people dropped it over here? Or maybe it's more used in a particular part of England, and crossed from there.