greasy/greazy question

yvonne frasure yvonne_frasure at YAHOO.COM
Wed Aug 21 15:59:00 UTC 2002


Not really.  Being Appalachian I have had to be careful with the (z) in greasy, but the (s) in Vaseline was never an issue.  Yvonne
 "Steve Kl." wrote:Does your pronunciation of the sibilant in Vaseline mirror your use of [s]
or [z] in greasy?

I'm seeing a correlation, but right now I've only got one data point from
above the greasy/greazy isogloss (me) and one data point from below (Ben).

Thanks.

-- Steve


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