is winnie the pooh a boy or a girl?

I always considered Pooh a boy. When my son was born, I started calling him Pooh. I love bears, and my son was so cute and cuddly. That nickname stuck with him until he finished college. I tried to stop calling him that, sometimes I would make a slip, but I do not call him that anymore. I love Winnie Pooh, I think I have at least three stuffed Poohs.

Why should there be any dispute? His name is, as stated on the first page of the book, really Edward Bear but Christopher Robin explains that his name is not Winnie (a girl's name) but Winnie-the-Pooh. Walt Disney dropped the hyphens in his adaptation of the story. A.A.Milne gave this explanation for the name 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." (Winnie-the-Pooh, Methuen, 1926) Apparently the young Christopher Robin named his bear after a real bear called Winnipeg and a swan that he encountered on holiday once which was called Pooh. This question has been asked before quite recently. You should really search the discussions before asking (though I know most people don't bother!)

hello my fellow myLotter, i always thought Winnie the Pooh was a boy. lol. happy posting!

i dont really know. i have always thought of him as a boy. but thinking back i cant remember reading anything that says this is correct. in the cartoons he has a male voice. also the prictures of him do not have any feminine features, e.g. long eye lashes, bows on his clothes

I think he is a boy -the name sounds like a boy and he is dressed like a boy as well. I have always associated him as a boy. :-)