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Oh thank goodness. It turns out that the craziest theory on the topic is definitely a satire. It took me a while to find the source article people were talking about. Bear in mind, some people were repeating this theory as something someone had seriously advanced. *facepalm*
http://www.specgram.com/CXLVIII.4/04.buendia.pooh.html
This is the article that got me down that hole in the first place: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/winnie-pooh-actually-girl/
There's also some interesting stuff out there about why exactly it's spelled "Winnie-ther-Pooh" with an "r" in certain places. It gets into British regional phonetics and whatnot.
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... silly ol' tigress...