Where did they come up with the name WINNIE the POOH ?? What in the world is a POOH ?? Why was he named that?
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winnie and pooh were the names of swans in a zoo that AA Milne took his son, the real Christopher Robin, to see....
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Here's a joke......\nA young boy received a newborn puppy. "What are you going to name this puppy" said the father. "I will name him Jehovah's Witness",said the boy. A few weeks later the little boy told his father he wanted to change the name of his puppy to "Christian". "Why?" the father asked. The boy replied: "Because the puppy opened his eyes".
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Eeyore; from Winnie the Pooh.
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Sorry, I just don't know, but had to answer because I just love the name.  Isn't this a beautiful name?  Say it.  It sounds really nice.
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The name "Pom" is said to derive from Australia's origins as a convict colony. Each unfortunate transported down under from Britain for his or her (mostly) petty crime was said to be a "Prisoner of Her Majesty" or POHM, later simplified to POM.  \n\nHowever, there is an alternative explanation as  Pom was around a few years before Word War II.  In fact, we first come across it in print during World War I, in 1914, as a derogatory term for an immigrant to Australia from England.  It is a quotation from D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo in 1923 that gives us the most popularly accepted etymology of this word: "Pommy is supposed to be short for pomegranate. Pomegranate, pronounced invariably 'pommygranate', is a near enough rhyme to immigrant, in a naturally rhyming country. Furthermore, immigrants are known in their first months, before their blood ‘thins down’, by their round and ruddy cheeks. So we are told."  Slang lexicographer Eric Partridge also favors the pomegranate derivation, and he gives a slightly more detailed explanation by quoting from H.J. Rumsey's The Pommies (1920): "Colonial boys and girls, ready to find a nickname, were fond of rhyming Immigrant, Jimmy-grant, Pommegrant, and called it to the new chum children.  The name stuck and became abbreviated to pommy later on."  Partridge also believes that the word was being used as far back as the end of the 19th century.  It is often the case with slang that it is spoken for several years before it is put into writing. Anyhow, the OED is careful to note that there is no good evidence supporting the pomegranate derivation.
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One thing to remember is that because we name children with any character or any of the two characters put together, we don't have lists of men's names or women's names. You can say that Chinese people actually "invent" names!\n\nWhen parents name their children, it usually depends on either \n1. fortuneteller's suggestion\n2. what happened or under what condition they are born\n3. what they hope their children to be in the future or\n4. what personality they hope their children to have\n\nI think you can add this fact in your novel if you like. It can be a very good factor of a conflict.\n\nShen Huan is a good name, as Shen (沈) is really a Chinese surname, and there are characters pronounced "huan".\n\nIf Chloe is raised in the UK, I think you can give her a name that implies "China" or "Chinese culture", since many overseas Chinese parents don't want their children to "forget their roots", meaning to lose their own culture (the Chinese culture) and forget their true idendity (that they are Chinese). Names like 思中 (Si Zhong) and 思華 (Si Hua) (both of which mean "thinking about China") are of this kind.
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“What’s your name? "\n"Puddin Tane.\nAsk me again, and I’ll tell you the same.”\n\nAll I know is the it is considered a "traditional African American children’s rhyme."  I looked and looked...this was all I could find.
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He wanted to find Pooh.
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Nobody really knows where the term Hoosier comes from.  There are some popular guesses, but the fact that there are about five different popular guesses just goes to show that no one really knows where the term originated.  The clip that Annie posted in her answer is a good example of how no one knows.  I would recommend reading the rest of her clip at the link she gave.  It is interesting.
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"Grover may have been named after former U.S. president Grover Cleveland. It is also speculated, however, that the Muppet Workshop and Sesame Workshop chose this name because it was out of vogue and unlikely to unintentionally offend many viewers."
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We got a Maine Coon cat who we named Harryhausen. His father's name was Hal Bop, which I thought was a cool name for a cat. Harryhausen is the greatest - provokes astonishment from guests, is gigantic, peaceable, with a quiet meow. I had an Angora once and he was the most obnoxious bloody cat on the planet with a very irritating meow. Manx cats look kinda cool, but I don't know much about them. Ditto, Persian.
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Actually it is: Snuffleupagus \nSnuffleupagus, a popular Wooly Mammoth-like creature that inhabited Sesame Street.\nMany people already knew about the existence of Snuffleupagus, but as viewers of Sesame Street might recall, there was a good 14 years before anyone else but Big Bird got to see him.
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well linguistically speaking it is very difficult to say why do people name an object like this and not like that \n\nif you are asking about the reason of naming Abo El hooool like that it is as f you are asking why people do name BMW like this  ......you see \n\nsimply the fact of name come randomly "arbitrarly"\nif you want more information about name see this book "Simantics" and "pragmatics"
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I agree, where is Yahoo? He made 3 different names on yahoo answer, Coonlover, coonkiller1 and  coonkiller2. The guy is a weirdo. I reported every single question he has asked and still never got suspended from yahoo answer. I'm suprised.
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Like the answer above - Tiny - cos when people ask you why you called him Tiny you can say "Because he's my newt"\n\nGettit???
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It's that so weird, we were just talking about that in class today, this girl said the most weirdest names, skittles, poochie, shalaquifa, one even said that if she had twins, she would name them, today and tomorrow. What kind of names are these? Therefore answering your question, I really don't know. Maybe they think it's cute or something, but to tell you the truth, names like that are embarrassing to live by.
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Why did Tigger have his head in the toilet?  Because he was looking for Pooh.\n\n(Sorry if that joke is disgusting, it's the only one I know)