Thread: Different names for Crappie......go

"Crappie", because I made it past 2nd grade, where I learned how to pronounce words based on how they're spelled, and the use of the vowels and nouns. Never understood how you get "crop-pee" out of "crappie(crap-pee)".

I do find my self saying sac a laits a lot, and I've only passed through LA a couple times in my life. It's just a fun word.

Originally Posted by TreednNC

"Crappie", because I made it past 2nd grade, where I learned how to pronounce words based on how they're spelled, and the use of the vowels and nouns. Never understood how you get "crop-pee" out of "crappie(crap-pee)".

I do find my self saying sac a laits a lot, and I've only passed through LA a couple times in my life. It's just a fun word.

It's not that simple. I've heard it both ways and use it both ways. In SC, Ala, & Tenn I've heard it pronounced "Crap E", but growing up in KY I always heard it pronounced "Crop E". It's kinda like the "po tA tow" vs "po tah tow" regional dialect deal, and then there's those of us that simply say "tater".
But if you go back to the roots of the word, you find this :

The word crappie derives from the French-Canadian word crapet, a term used to describe various fish from the sunfish family of which crappie belongs to. Crapet is pronounced krah pay in French Canadian, yet in English that can be pronounced either crop A or crap E.

If you sound the word like it's spelled in my boat you're gonna swim home. It's crauppie for gosh goodness sake.

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Pie

Here in North Central Florida we call them "Specks" or "Speckled Perch"

We just call them “fish.” Everything else is something else.


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"potato chips" in some spots I hit

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