Why is a helter skelter called a helter skelter ?

Question

Why is a helter skelter called a helter skelter ?

Answer 1

Now, that's funny you should ask.  A woman who works next to me in transport has just asked exactly the same thing.

Fancy a cig?

Answer 2

Because it is, just like a house is called a house.

Answer 3

Helter-skelter is an English phrase meaning "to be in confused, disorderly haste" or "turmoil", and is attested from 1593.

Answer 4

To be scarey? h**l starts off the syllables. Skelter starts off as sounding close to skeleton.

Maybe its a persons name. They owned the land and it became known as that.