greasy/greazy question

[sagehen]

Steve Kl writes:
>Does your pronunciation of the sibilant in Vaseline mirror your use of [s]
>or [z] in greasy?
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Yes. [s] in both.  Most of my seventy-odd years spent north of the 40th
parallel.

On another thread, I began hearing "graduate highschool," &c., back in the
forties.  Thought then and still think it an ugly usage.   I like "depart
from" rather than "depart [place]," too, though that seems to be a lost
battle.
A. Murie