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Feel better soon!  It is fun having a little extra time to work on a baby, though, isn't it?   

pmsl oh lordy how funny!!!! we so need to change the words we use for putting in babies hair i think! lol hope you get better soon hun ((((bighugs)))))

No I have never heard rooting used as a sexual term. It is used for rooting for your team, like you said, and some animals root around in the ground and then there is rooting of plants. Oh and one more rooty toot toot, but I don't really know what that is in reference too. Since there are so many Aussie's selling and buying these babies, maybe we should think of another name. How about transplanting mohair, how does that sound? You girls are so bad!!!! LOL. Janie in the USA

ok i trying to replie to this post hope it works, ya know i never thought about it like that Naomi i always thought it meant the same thing everywhere gosh the US must think we are nuts over here laughing at the term rooting i was in fits of laughter like you Kaz reading what nightngale posted pmsl my coffeee splurted all over my keyboard lol its amazing how the lingo can be so different from country to country isnt it!!!

oh i must share a story concerning this matter lol when my x hubby and i broke up he came every weekend to see the kids one weekend he asked me where my wedding rings were and i said to him i have had to take them off because im rooting and they can just get in the way, well he never said a word and about a week later he rang and asked who the new fella was i was like what fella what are you talking about the poor man had been depressed thinking i had moved on and was wondering how i could jsut find somone else so quickly after a break up lol when i said rooting the babies ya dill he was so relieved! so yeh we aussies have to be extremely careful how we use this term :)

pmsl omg too funny i recon you could be right there lol

Leah - oh i'm in a real little giggle fit now!!! classic!!! And that it took him a week to get the courage to ask about it all... poor thing, must have been such a releaf for him when he learnt the truth!!!

it certianlly makes for a funny story after the fact though

**giggles some more**

*giggles* but i'm just an innocent little angel

well at least i gave everyone a bit of a laugh today hehee


....... maybe an angel with black wings and a scorched halo!! LOL

-- Edited by precious_lullabies at 12:08, 2008-08-26

hello All, now I,m back on the post tonight and I must take the blame for starting this off,Telling Naomi I was out to tea, and my husband used to tell everyone we were going home to make babies and they looked at us funny.But I couldn't come out and say the root... word,How would they understand ,two old fogies doing that at our age. Unheard of. Our kids think we only did it 5-6 times to get them. Untill they started rootin arround, I think we should use the term, transplanting hair. hows that sound. Not the same when we know the other term.June M from Oz

-- Edited by sara zata at 01:45, 2008-08-27

Guess what my Dad did, he put 100s and 1000s on the wood heap and told us to go pick them up, then he put vaseline on the door nobs so our little hand would slip, this was when he came home from the army. That was our big treat.LOLJune M from Oz.

Oh gosh, call me naive, but I never knew rooting meant *that!* LOL

Here in the States, I think *rooting* most often is used for the word "nursing." It's when a brand new baby is "looking" for his momma's milk. see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_instinct
I think this reference to the word rooting is used far more often than say, "rooting for your team," although we do say that, too. This type of "rooting for your team" is also called "cheering," Hence, the term "cheerleaders."

Another more common terminology for "rooting" is when you are propogating plants (instead of using seeds; you take a portion of the plant and try to grow roots). As you can see, here in the U.S. "rooting" means many varied things, but none of them sexual (I think... except for propogating plants, ). see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting

sara zata wrote:

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Hello Your Royal Highness, That was the term I was thinking about also last night,Propogating, to plant a cutting to get roots to grow. Transplanting also means to transplant a cutting, as well as hair transplant.But if we all spelt how the word sounded, we would have a lot of children unable to use the dictionary, the same as I have to do at my age.LOL.June M from Oz

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Royal Highness.......  Hmmmm, I could get used to that!  ROFL!

rotfl ohhhh just too funny LOL!

I remember when I first met my British mother in law, she came out for our college graduation and then took us on a grand across country vacation. I remember we stopped at a motel for the night and she took one room and my husband and I got the room next door. We discussed plans for the next day and then she turned and said, "okay, I'll knock you up about 7." I know the look on my face must have been awful because my husband started to laugh and my mother in law looked confused. My husband took me inside and explained that term meant she would come and knock on our door in the morning to wake us up. (In America that term means to get someone pregnant!) To this day I still haven't figured out if a biscuit is a cookie, then what is a what we call a biscuit in America. I asked my mum in law that and she looked at me as though I had lost my mind. I still don't have an answer to that question!

A biscuit here is round and raised and some are big enough to put some meat in them, probably what you are thinking of with McDonalds, but those look entirely different from our English Muffins. The EM are flat and round and have more of a yeast taste to them and they are filled with little holes from air bubbles so I am guessing they are yeast based. Biscuits are just flour, water, salt and a little baking powder and that's it. Our older generation in America as well as some southern states, are especially keen on biscuits and gravy, quite good but quit fattening!
I have learned that American English is not the same as the "Queen's English" as my mother in law would say. My father in law is Scottish, I gave up on understanding him a long time ago as when he gets excited or talks fast, I get completely lost in what he is saying.