[Ads-l] Cacaklacky

[Jonathan Lighter]

Jonathan Lighter

This went to Rich but was meant for everyone:

If I had to guess, I'd guess that it owes its sound mostly to the WWII
fad term "khaki-wacky."

Which isn't to say it's "derived from" khaki-wacky, or that
"Cackalacky" meaning Carolina was uttered by any detectable number of
humans before ca 1970 - or by many before the '90s.

JL


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