A Colleague the other day commented on the word "wacky" as being spelt wrong and the right way of doing it is "whacky"... checking the antecedents of the word found both being right, while the former being more right...
why?
because "whacky" as defined by dictionary.com is a slang form of "wacky" ...
but then why the confusion... probably because our overt dependence on US English that adopts the slang cousin more and probably non conformance of standard style sheets by prominent newspapers..
I think its neither... it seems people tend to use as a noun in various scenarios like a blogger who calls hime self whaky, whackyscience.co.uk from Bayer, whackynation, whacky sports...
probably the 'h' brings in more more punch to the craziness of the word...
dont know why I am writing this but maybe someone who reads this makes some sense to my thought process...
but the correct usage of the word lies at "wacky" and not "whacky"
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