Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
    ak>  long ago I read a book of Winnie-the-Pooh, and   
    ak>  there have been a mystery I cannot still understand.   
         |there is, there was   
      
      
      
    >>   "Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases   
    >>   is as follows."   
      
    >>   "What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For   
    >>   I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me."   
      
                                   [...]   
      
    >>   "The thing to do is as follows. First, Issue a Reward. Then--"   
      
    >>   "Just a moment," said Pooh, holding up his paw. "What do we do   
    >>   to this -- what you were saying? You sneezed just as you were   
    >>   going to tell me."   
      
      
      
    ak>  Why, on Earth, Pooh said that Owl sneezed? ;-)   
         |Why on Earth did Pooh say that Owl sneezed?   
      
      
               We've already read, with his version of "customary procedure",   
   that Pooh is easily confused by polysyllabic and/or formal terms.  I reckon   
   the word "issue" is new to him & he hears "first issue" as interrupted by the   
   sound of a sneeze... often approximated in English as "achoo" or [esp. UK]   
   "atishoo".  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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