I almost always hear it with an ‘S’ but I used to work with a guy from the south (Georgia? maybe) who always said it with the ‘Z.’ I figured it was a regional thing.
How about a nice big greezzy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?
Grease-ee unless I’m talking about a gree-zee spoon
I unapologetically say it “greezy.” It drives my wife nuts. She also doesn’t like the way I pronounce “aunt.”
That we have reached detente on. She has ants, I have aunts. She is ant to her sister’s son and aunt to my sister’s daughters. If we have kids they will have one ant and one aunt. Thus is the peace preserved.
Always “greesy,” never “greezy.”
I always figured the ones who say “greezy” were lead astray by the resemblance between greasy and easy.
Neither.
On reflection, my pronunciation of the word is context-sensitive. In a food context, I generally seem to pronounce it with the sibilant, “gri si”. In a mechanical context, I pronounce it “gri zi”. Oddly–though I’m second-guessing my own pronunciation now–the exception is in the expression “greasy spoon”. Even though it’s food-related, it gets the Z treatment.
I say gree-see. I’ve never heard the gree-zee pronunciation.
Sounds kind of like the Southern pronunciation of Naked vs. Nekkid.
According to Lewis Grizzard, “Naked means you ain’t got no clothes on. Nekkid means you ain’t got no clothes on and you’re up to somethin’.”
Gree-zee, as in the commercial linked in the OP.
You need to get out more. Hang with some lowlifes. Date Mickey Rourke.
Greezee. No one I know pronounces it the other way.
Pizza can have too much greeSe on it, but the pan is greeZy.
If I wanted to pronounce it with a “z,” I’d spell it with a “z.”
I am with your wife all the way. I am from Kentucky.
Yeah, but English doesn’t work that way. I’m only slightly exaggerating when I say about half the time you see an “s” you actually pronounce a “z.”
Nm, thought better of it.
It’s gree-see. Unless we’re talking about grease in the past tense, as in Greezed Lightning
Yep, exactly. I do this too.