How we cite our quotes: (Book Title.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Sometimes it seemed to him [Pooh] that it did mean what Rabbit said, and sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. (Winnie-the-Pooh.7.28)
This is all about Pooh practicing Rabbit's "Aha!" The word is exactly the same, but the way Pooh says it keeps changing. What's amazing is how saying it over and over again transforms it into something else, maybe even into utter nonsense
Quote #8
"I could call this place Poohandpiglet Corner if Pooh Corner didn't sound better, which it does, being smaller and more like a corner." (House.1.38)
True to the modernism of his time, Milne shows us how important form is. Even though the first name may be more appropriate in terms of its content, the second sounds better and shorter, so that form prevails.
Quote #9
"He will say it again," said Pooh, "and I shall go on humming. And that will Upset him. Because when you say 'Ho-ho!' twice, in a gloating sort of way, and the other person only hums, you suddenly find, just as you begin to say it the third time-that-well-, you find—:
"What?" "That it isn't," said Pooh. "Isn't what?" Pooh knew what he meant, but, being a Bear of Very Little Brain, couldn't think of the words. (House.3.64-68)
You know what he means, don't you?