On Mon, 18 May 2015, Ardith Hinton wrote to alexander koryagin:   
      
    AH>             We've already read, with his version of "customary   
    AH> procedure", that Pooh is easily confused by polysyllabic and/or   
    AH> formal terms.  I reckon the word "issue" is new to him & he hears   
    AH> "first issue" as interrupted by the sound of a sneeze... often   
    AH> approximated in English as "achoo" or [esp. UK] "atishoo".  :-)    
      
   i completely missed the similarity in sound between issue and atchoo... they   
   do sound close when atchoo is said without the force of a full on sneeze... i   
   guess it is possible that pooh thought issue was a little sneeze ;)    
      
   )\/(ark   
      
    * Origin:  (1:3634/12)