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To: ChicagoConservative27

Perhaps, but the name is pronounced with a long A (Kray-po). His father taught at the law school I attended and was struck down at a fairly young age with acute leukemia.


6 posted on 05/27/2021 1:22:38 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: caseinpoint; ChicagoConservative27

That’s an Americanization; the original name was “Crapaud” and would have the scatological-sounding pronunciation.


9 posted on 05/27/2021 1:27:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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