On Jul 16, 4:53*pm, Julia Altshuler > wrote:
> aem wrote:
>
> > It was a small joke. *Here's an Aussie slang dictionary. *Look under
> > 'R'. * * -aem
> >http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html#R
>
> I got your joke and raised you one.
> The question was, if root means ****, what do you say when you mean root?
>
Ah, whoosh!, you're too quick for me. So were many Australians,
especially when they got into rhyming slang. -aem