Let's make today's first post the AWordADay e-mail I received...any of you British or Down Under readers familiar with this word?....

doolally (DU-lah-lee) adjective...Irrational, deranged, or insane...[After Deolali, an Indian town.]

"As aid dwindled, Mr Mugabe made no effort to spend within his means. From 1997, public finances went doolally. The main result  was graft."
Hell, No, I Won't Go, The Economist (London), Feb 21, 2002.

Deolali is a small town in western India, about 100 miles from Mumbai (formerly Bombay) with an unusual claim to fame. It's where British soldiers who had completed their tour of duty were sent to await transportation home. It was a long wait, often many months, before they were to be picked up by ships to take them to England. Consequent boredom turned many a soldier insane, and the word doolally was coined.  At first the term was used in the form "He's got the Doo-lally tap", from Sanskrit tapa (heat) meaning one has caught doolally fever but now it's mostly seen as in "to go doolally". In Australia, it goes as "don't do your lolly".