l, not -l wrote:
>
> On 9-Aug-2007, "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
>
>> Absurd. You say it that way out of some fake sense of propriety. If you
>> pronounced "map" like "mop", any good English teacher would beat you with
>> a
>> ruler, and be totally justified in doing so.
> According to the M-W online dictionary, croppie is the correct
> pronunciation. Click on the little speaker symbol to hear it pronounced, if
> you don't believe what you see.
>
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?crappie
>
> They don't even offer "crappy" as a correct alternative pronunciation.

Ditto American Heritage Dictionary. Nothing there but pron croppy. I
didn't know that. As I mentioned elsewhere, I knew it as pron like
"crappy" back in the USan Midwest.

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