Cackalacka, Cackalacky, and variants [long]

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Fri Jul 8 22:39:49 UTC 2005


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



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