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"Cackalacky" is a vile term. I'm glad so many people have never been exposed 
to the evils of this stupid term. It's so... Jerry Clower.

Beth



Laurie VanDine <laurie AT bizrace.com> wrote:

>I'm originally from California (yes, a native Californian...there are still a
>few of us around!), have only lived in NC for a little over a year and a half
>now, and I've never heard the term in my life.
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>Quoting zman <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com>:
>
>> > +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.
>> 
>> I heard it long before I ever moved here. Usually in the context of where 
>> Fayette-nam and Ft. Drag were. I don't believe it comes from any Cherokee 
>> word. I think it's just bad slang used to make the Carolinas sound hick. 
>> Though it does seem to bedded in Rap vernacular these days I tend not to 
>> use it. I guess I'm just not as hip as I used to be.
>> 
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