Talk:poobah

The primary spelling really should be pooh-bah or poohbah. Gilbert spelled it Pooh-Bah. Re: "Asimov's Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan", Isaac Asimov, p.519, Note IX.23.


 * The poohbah spelling is almost the same on Google books, much less common at COCA (US). DCDuring TALK 11:11, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Many of the hits for spellings with "h" refer specifically to the character, which thereby do not count as references to the term as defined in this entry. I haven't taken the time to count or sample count the relative frequencies at COCA. This gives a reasonable estimate of frequency in the US. We should check at google news and google books too. DCDuring TALK 11:20, 8 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I wonder if poobah (pre-Gilbert) traces to PBUH? Wnt (talk) 14:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)