# How do you pronounce greasy

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 10, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-greasy/668499 "2013-09-10T14:07:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-greasy/668499/41 "2013-09-11T19:26:43Z")

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‘s’ is natural to me, but the ‘z’ doesn’t sound particularly jarring.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-greasy/668499/42 "2013-09-12T22:53:01Z")

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Usually Greece-y. But I’ve been known to use the other form for imagery purposes. Greezy just sounds nastier. And you can elongate that Z along with the E while still varying pitch.

My logic, if you care: greece is the noune, while greeze is the verb. The -y suffix is usually added to the noun, not the verb.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-greasy/668499/43 "2013-09-13T14:43:37Z")

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I was surprised and happy to see this thread as I heard that ad on the radio just this morning. Hearing ‘gree-zee’ was kind of jarring. I’m definitely a ‘grease-ee’ type of person.

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