"KevinS" > wrote in message
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> 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".
>
>

And, let's not forget what politicians love to say when a horrible crime
requires public comment:

"We must do something about heinous crimes like this one!", pronouncing
"heinous" like "penis".