English is not my first language, so that might be the reason, but I just never understood the name of the character. Winnie THE Pooh? Why "the" in the middle of his name? I'd understand if it was something like "Toto the Dog" or "Kermit the Frog", but that doesn't seem to be the case here, so why the "the"?
shareBecause he's a Pooh Bear. Like Gentle Ben the Grizzly, Winnie is a Pooh. Well...more like Winnie is THE Pooh, as there are no other Pooh bears in existence.
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Then "Pooh" refers to a fictitious type of bear, is that so?
shareI've never seen a bear that looked like that. Have you?
Really, this is the best I've heard so far:
This is from Wiki: In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh":
"But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think — but I am not sure — that that is why he is always called Pooh."
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From the original classic by A. A. Milne:
When I first heard his [Winnie-the-Pooh's] 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 [referring to the
reader] do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get.
So... THAT is all the explanation you need. This is just one more nonsensical part of a wonderful children's book.