On Aug 9, 2:45?pm, Blinky the Shark wrote:

> 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.

Looking at the American Heritage Dictionary. circa
1969, I see:

crappie: either of two edible North American freshwater
fishes, Pomoxsis nigromaculatus, the black crappie,
or P. annularis, the white crappie, related to the
sunfishes [Canadian French: crapet]

"a" pronounced as in "pat".

This reminds me of a guy who ran for Congress
from Idaho (I think) - Mike Crapo, now a senator.
When he first ran for the House, he ran ads that
said "IT'S CRAPO", somehow indicating "a" as
in "drape".