Winnie-the-Pooh, from Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne:
[M]y spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Meanderings of Yore
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A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh:
‘Hallo!’ said Piglet, ‘what are you doing?’
‘Hunting,’ said Pooh.
‘Hunting what?’
‘Tracking something,’ said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.
‘Tracking what?’ said Piglet, coming closer
‘That’s just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?’
‘What do you think you’ll answer?’
‘I shall have to wait until I catch up with it,’ said Winnie-the-Pooh.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926):
Winnie-the-Pooh.
When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, ‘But I thought he was a boy?’
‘So did I,’ said Christopher Robin.
‘Then you can’t call him Winnie?’
‘I don’t.’
‘But you said—’
‘He’s Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don’t you know what “ther” means?’
‘Ah, yes, now I do,’ I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get.
