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google counts
cackalack    72 (including cackalack kennelz pit bulls)
cackalackie 197
cackalacky 1100 (including cackalacky hot sauce)

who hasn't hear the term:
william s powell (nc placename expert)
h g jones (retired curator for nc collection)
catherine lutz (military sociologist specializing in fayette-nam)

who's heard it but recently:
walt wolftram (linguist at nc state)
connie eble (linguist at unc)
jock lauderer (small town newspaper specialist at unc)

who claims to have heard it in the 50s 60s or 70s:
bland simpson (while living on the coast of nc)
paul jones (while living in charlotte)
Ken VanDine (on the outer banks -- decade?)
Charlie Gwinn (in laurens, sc)
Jill Sahl (in nawerin Va)

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Maria Winslow wrote:

+On Sunday 10 August 2003 09:43 am, Beth wrote:
+> I am and always have been utterly repulsed by "Cackalacky". I'm from NC
+> originally and that word never ceases to make me cringe. It's too Hee Haw.
+> It's too cutesy country. It's like colonial bluepaint/pineapple decor. It's
+> something you see cross-stitched on a pillow and sold for $10 in some
+> catalog, right next to the t-shirts that say "Because I'm the mom. THAT'S
+> why."
+>
+> Beth
+>
+
+I've been in NC since I was 4, and I've never heard the word. Hmm. 
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