"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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> "KW" <keith_warrennospamatallteldotnet> wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> "KW" <keith_warrennospamatallteldotnet> wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> >
> >> > "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
> >> > ...
> >> >> "KW" <keith_warrennospamatallteldotnet> wrote in message
> >> >> ...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> >> >> > ...
> >> >> >> In article >,
> >> >> >> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> > Any fisherpersons in your circle of acquaintances? If so, how
do
> >> >> >> > they
> >> >> >> > pronounce this fish:
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > crappie
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Do they turn it into "croppie", to avoid the bad word that will
> >> >> >> > bring
> >> >> > sin
> >> >> >> > and destruction upon their houses?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> No, we say "croppie" because that's the correct way to pronounce
> >> >> >> it.
> >> > "-)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > *backwoods voice mode on*
> >> >> >
> >> >> > They ain't no O in Crappie :-)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > *Mode off*
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Heard it both ways throughout my life in many parts of the
country,
> > but
> >> >> > this
> >> >> > is the first time I've ever heard of sin & destruction tied to the
> > "a"
> >> >> > version :-)
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> That's the only reason I can come up with for pronouncing it that
way,
> >> > other
> >> >> than illiteracy. Fake decency examples are everywhere. People in
> >> > newsgroups
> >> >> type sh*t instead of shit. Are they kidding?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > My deep south (Central Alabama) grandparents often fought over this
> >> > very
> >> > thing. Memaw claimed the long a variant (Croppie) and Papaw the short
a
> >> > (Crappie). One time when I was ~16, Memaw was in a huff and pulled
out
> > the
> >> > dictionary to prove her point and Papaw politely told her to kiss his
> > ass!
> >> > Never Surrender ! :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> OK, but there's no long or short debate here. Both pronunciations are
the
> >> short version of the vowels involved. What a way to confuse kids and
undo
> >> what teachers are trying to achieve.
> >
> >> Illiteracy is often hereditary.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I find that statement to be true quite often and it applies equally to
> > inflated self-images.
>
>
> I'm simply stating facts. I know they're often annoying and inconvenient,
> but still, they are facts.
>
>

As a point of clarification, I was simply re-affirming your point and adding
an observation in a similar vein. The second point wasn't directed at you.

If you took it that way, then perhaps it may apply after all.

In retrospect, I suppose you may have been directing the illiteracy comment
towards myself and my lineage....if that's the case then your allegations
are built on a very flimsy single thread of evidence and in truth you are
way off base.