greasy/greazy question

[Dennis R. Preston]

I'm "Lowland Appalachia" and I was never careful with the /z/ in
greasy. What's to be careful about?


dInIs



>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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