GREAZY and GREASY

[Beverly Flanigan]

I haven't heard any, but I'm not in "deep" Appalachia.

At 04:32 PM 3/11/2005, you wrote:
>[gri:z] as a noun is usual in Scots, along with the same as a verb and
>[gri:zi] as an adjective.  No Appalachian attestations?
>
>Paul Johnston
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> > >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