Cackalacky

Carrboro, North Carolina (NC), US

Paul Jones, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of ibiblio.org, is probably the closest anyone has come to identifying the word’s origin.

Cackalacky

Carrboro, North Carolina (NC), US

Cackalacky is a nickname for North or South Carolina, but where did the name come from?

“It doesn’t look like anyone has come up with a convincing answer yet, and it may well just be an invented ‘nonsense’ word that sounds vaguely like Carolina,” Goebel wrote in an e-mail.

Paul Jones, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of ibiblio.org, is probably the closest anyone has come to identifying the word’s origin.

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