"~ Shelly ~" > wrote in message
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> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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>> "KevinS" > wrote in message
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>>> On Aug 9, 2:45?pm, Blinky the Shark wrote:
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>>>> 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".
> I've always heard it pronounced it as 'hey-nous.'
>
> ~~ Shelly ~~


Yes, that's the right way. But, I've heard a few Washington blowhards
mispronounce the word.