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Provided But others? Well. Vic Santucci, Illinois’ Lake Michigan program manager, emailed, “I say crappie, as in row ‘crop.’ Sorry, old school.” Last week in the obituary for Ed Mullady, I noted how he said ‘‘croppie’’ for crappie, and it made me smile. He even wrote it as croppie. Enter Mark Brown, the erudite, ruggedly handsome (in a scholarly way) Chicago Sun-Times political columnist. “I’m confused by the lead in today’s column,” he emailed. “I thought the correct pronunciation of crappie is croppie.” When I suggested he join the 21st century on the favored panfish, he felt compelled to add, “I think you are wrong.”