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Traditionally it is pronounced /krApi/ however /kr{pi/ is a common pronunciation nowadays due to spelling pronunciation and influence of the word "crap".

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I've never heard any other pronunciation of crappie except the one with /æ/--and it's a pretty common thing to fish for in the Upper Midwest.

Same thought here.

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Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.

I also wonder about that, but it does seem to be the most common pronunciation given in dictionaries.

I've never used the word much, but I thought of it as having /æ/.

It seems to come from French "crapet", used by Canadian speakers. Based on the spelling, I wouldn't expect this to have /ɑ/ in any variety of French, but apparently 'cropet' exists or existed as a dialectal variant in some regions, so I'm not totally sure if the English pronunciation might be based in some way on a variant French form with some kind of back vowel in the first syllable. The OED says the English word has been spelled with "o", although that could well just be a pronunciation-spelling based on an English pronunciation with /ɑ/ that was based on a French pronunciation with /a/.

All dictionaries I've looked in give /krɑpi/ as the pronunciation of "crappie". I've never seen a dictionary that listed /kræpi/ even as an alternative pronunciation.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crappie

I myself pronounce it /kræpi/.

Maybe you need to look in more dictionaries?
(Note that BE /a/ is the phonemic correlate of AE /æ/.)

How do you pronounce Sbarro the pizza place? I've heard / s@bAroU/ and /spAroU/.

I think I vary between [ʹzbaro] and [ʹz̥b̥aːɾoʊ] depending on who I'm talking to. It's such an unabashedly Italian name that I aim for something close to the Italian pronunciation but I don't always nail it.

I've generally heard it /ɛsˈbɑɹoː/ from most Americans, but I suppose my pronunciation would be similar linguoboy's if I were called upon to pronounce it. (I'm a bit of a foodie, so it's not where I'd choose to get my pizza. :p )

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"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”

For a while, we had one in the food court next door, so it was convenient for a quick bite. Now the campus catering company makes its own, which is slightly worse. Unfortunately, it's a long hike downtown for anything resembling a foodie option.

So while we're on an Italian food kick:
zabaglione
dulce de leche
mostaccioli
paste e fagioli

Dulce de leche?

I used to pronounce this as though it were Italian - though only a couple of times, since it usen't to be common here. I've since made the correction.

Your other words are too rare for me to honestly have a fixed pronunciation (I don't think I've ever encountered them, in fact), other than trying to follow italian pronunciation rules so far as I'm aware of them.

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

Pretty much the same for me. I would pronounce zabaglione, mostaccioli, and paste e fagioli as if they were just Italian words and dulce de leche as in Spanish.

As Sal points out, a surprising number of people mistake this for Italian and pronounce it with /ʧ/.

Mostaccioli is a staple at weddings in St Louis (at least within a certain social stratum), but the local pronunciation is with /ˈməsk/ rather than /ˈmɔst/. It wouldn't have occurred to me this was unusual if a(n Italian-American) classmate of mind hadn't peeved about it.

Pasta e fagioli is pretty commonplace in areas with large Italian-American communities (like Chicago). But because so many of the original immigrants were Neapolitian or Sicilian, the pronunciation /ˌpɑstəfəˈzuːl/ is more widespread, at least among the older generation. I picked up this pronunciation from my ex, who grew up in SoCal.

I pronounce dulce de leche "caramel," because I'm so confused and haven't even the vaguest clue what language it is or how it should be pronounced. :p

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"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”

Interestingly enough, while I mostly pronounce it the Spanish way, I think I pronounce the first vowel in leche as /ɛ/, at least in context of that phrase. That's weird--I know perfectly well it's supposed to be /e/, and I learned about the food from Spanish speakers.

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I generally forget to say, so if it's relevant and I don't mention it--I'm from Southern Michigan and speak Inland North American English. Yes, I have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift; no, I don't have the cot-caught merger; and it is called pop.

Emphasis added.

Hmm? It'd be /le.ke/ in Italian because <ch> is always /k/, while the <c> in words such as ciao is always /ʧ/. Another example is Chievo /ki.e.vo/.

He's talking about the <c> in dulce, which in fact looks to me more Italian than Spanish. Maybe some Duce has some impact on it?

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- Hey mate, are you hung-a-ry?

The average English-speaker doesn't know those rules.

The Italian-American entertainer Dominic Amici respelled his surname "Ameche" in order to get USAmericans to pronounce it correctly.

I didn't know people (read: Americans) pronounced dulce de leche as something other than /ˈdulseɪ deɪ ˈleɪtʃeɪ/ or /ˈdʌlseɪ deɪ ˈleɪtʃeɪ/

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Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.

I would pronounce it [ˈd̪ulse ðe ˈlet͡ʃe] (or maybe [ˈd̪ulse d̪e ˈlet͡ʃe]).

If my parents mangled the pronunciation atrociously and often enough, I would probably transcribe it for them in Malayalam script as ദുത്സെ ദെ ലേച്ചെ -> [d̪ulˈse d̪e ˈleːt͡ʃe], or maybe ദൂത്സെ ദെ ലേച്ചെ -> [ˈd̪uːlse d̪e ˈleːt͡ʃe], or maybe even ദൂത്സെതെ ലേച്ചെ -> [ˈd̪uːlse ðe ˈleːt͡ʃe](?). I have a sneaking suspicion that Spanish may be easier than Hindi for most Indians to pronounce accurately.

Point taken. I should have realized that because I pronounced it correctly the first time I saw it. Of course, I'm a native English speaker so <ch> and /ʧ/ are more-or-less equivalent. Odds are, my native tongue overruled the one I was trying to help pronounce there. My original correction brought up Lecce, which is <cc> and /let.ʧe/. Italian is such fun.

Meh, Spanish doesn't distinguish between /ɛ/ and /e/ anyway. And a diphthongal [eɪ] would be more foreign to Spanish than an [ɛ].

On second thought, if your DRESS vowel is closer to [ɐ] on account of your NCVS, this might sound weird.

I was just referring to the standard sort of transcription for NAE phonemes; standard /eɪ/ is the monophthong [e] for me.

That said, I do vary between /eɪ/ and /ɛ/, i.e. [e] and [ɜ], when saying Spanish words.

About dentals versus alveolar consonants, if I don't consciously try to do so, I use alveolar consonants when speaking Spanish words in English, even though I personally have interdental fricatives and dental stops that are allophones of each other.

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Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.

/ɛsˈbɑɹoː/ "ess barro"? That's interesting. I can't remember ever hearing anyone saying Sbarro like that and outside of context I might not even understand what they are referring to. I typically hear either /səbɑɹoː/ or /spɑɹoː/ or maybe even /zbɑɹoː/.