In article >,
"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:

> "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. "-)
> > --
> > -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
>
>
> 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.

Nah, I said it that way out of some true sense of whimsy and poking fun.

Curiousity question: What do you do when you visit towns or cities
where the name of the city or town isn't pronounced correctly; i.e., the
way it is elsewhere? I'm not saying this well. What I'm thinking of
are the communities of Lima, Ohio and New Prague, Minnesota. I don't
know what the Ohioans would say if you said LEEma, but the folks in New
Prague would know you don't know if you said New PRAHgue ‹ or Novy
Praha. "-) But they probably wouldn't correct you. On second thought,
they probably *would* correct you. Are you going to tell them they're
wrong?

How right do you want to be? Isn't "fisherpersons" redundant?

(Ducks, runs, and goes back to the kettles and jars.)
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - story and
pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007