vise

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
> <<I believe the clamping instrument to which you refer is actually
> spelled vise, which was pronounced "VIZE" by the old machine shop
> workers I knew as a kid in the steel city (now the rust belt) back in
> Pennsyltucky.>>

For my wife, a native of NEPA (Wilkes-Barre), it's only [vaIz]. I
swing both ways, with a slight tilt toward the pronunciation with [s].

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