Greasy = dirty?

[Alice Faber]

RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
> For some speakers, GREASY pronounced with a medial /s/ means 'grease-like',
> while /grizi/ means 'dirty'.
>
>
Yeah, I remember that split from Texas. Do you even get /grizi/
pronunciations in Canada, though?

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