"Business takes Vi[z]a"

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:35 PM -0400 8/17/08, James Harbeck wrote:
>In Canada, Vi[z]a is the standard everywhere, and it's always been a
>bit odd to my ear to hear Vi[s]a as I do when in the US (generally if
>I'm in the US I'm in the East, so I wasn't aware that it's [z] in
>some parts of the country). I had wondered whether this is due to the
>influence of French in Canada versus the influence of Spanish in the
>US, but perhaps it's not so.
>
Are there other Easterners (besides me) who say Vi[z]a?  I'm sure the
pattern isn't as straightforwardly regional as that for
"greasy"/"greazy".

LH

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