vise

[Charles C Doyle]

I doubt if I'm the only one who found odd Leslie Stahl's pronunciation of the word "vise" on "Sixty Minutes" last night (she was speaking figuratively):  She said [vaIz].

Is that pronunciation common in some dialect?  Where?  Or was she emulating the pretentious pronunciation of "vase" as [vaz]?

--Charlie

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