In a message dated 3/11/05 3:40:25 PM, flanigan at OHIOU.EDU writes: > The only distinction as I remember it was/is in the verb and adjective, > right? > "greazy" (pronounced with the z) is heard in North Carolina. I first heard someone enunciate the relationship between "greasy" and "greazy" as a matter of intensification at least 30 years ago.