GREAZY and GREA SY

[Laurence Horn]

>The only distinction as I remember it was/is in the verb and adjective,
>right?  No one, to my knowledge, pronounces the noun with /z/.  I wasn't
>aware of an added semantic distinction in the adjective, but then, I'm not
>a native in these here parts.  I'll now ask though.
>
>At 02:41 PM 3/11/2005, you wrote:
>>E. Bagby Atwood, but I don't recall a "greaze" there (except as a
>>verb of course).
>>
>>dInIs
>>

Yes, I'm sure it was the verb and the adjective that were under
discussion in Atwood's paper.  It's all exotic to me, but I'm sure
[gri:z] for the noun would have struck me as even more exotic.

Larry