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Re: Poppy
For some reason I thought that "poop/poopy" was an Americanism (although I don't know what I thought it was called elsewhere), so that was part of the problem. Poppy is also sometimes used as a term for a father or a grandfather (is that an exclusively American thing?), which doesn't bother me but I could see being protentially problematic for a bearer of the name. Basically, it's in the top 100 in a bunch of English-speaking countries but it's never been in the top 1000 in America and I've been trying to figure out if there's a reason for that or if it's just irrational neglect.Thanks for your response!
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I think it is a more American thing. (I've never actually said the word "poopy"!) but it's still not a great misspelling - people outside of America would still know what "poopy" means.
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