At 01:04 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: >German presents a word that sounds almost the same as Cackalacka, viz. >"Kakerlake" (= cockroach). Somebody else seems to have had a similar notion: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0206A&L=ADS-L&P=R3393&I=-3 -- Doug Wilson