On 9-Aug-2007, "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> 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.
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