greasy/greazy question

[Frank Abate]

Related item re the regional variation of the pron for _greasy_:

Rush Limbaugh ran ads on his show a while back for a cleaning product called
"Greased Lightning".  Rush did the voiceovers himself.  Now he hails from
Cape Girardeau, MO, which is "GREE-zee" territory.  Rush called the stuff
"GREEZ'D Lightning" in the earliest ads he did, when the product was new.
Later, he was saying "GREES'D Lightning".  Just a guess, but I'll bet the
manufacturer heard him and told him that they didn't want it said that way,
with the "Z".  And Rush would always give way to a sponsor.

Frank Abate