Is it Will-is or Will-ies??

Actually I believe it is "Pferd" if you want to be totaly accurate. It means "Horse" in German
Don

 

I drive a horse.... Of the 4 wheeled variety.

 

I thought it was a plural thing, you know, if you have one you say "will-iss", but if you have several, you refer to them as "will-ease"

 

I thought the plural was Willii (Will-eye)
Sorry its early and I'm the only one up and theres nothing else to do.

 

There is no way that the spelling of Willys could be pronounced Willis without a strong twist in dialect. It would be interesting to know the language history of the family.

 

Yo gonna axe me how I is gonna spell dis, It be Willys, yo is givin me a cerious case a da Willys. Now I is gonna go fo a roll in my mofo porch sha. I make a lot o roll counta I be a Docter it in liter reary science is, I dig on the hots rods. If you was ta park up too o these mo fos side by next , would it be called Willy seses?

 

Ditto:d

 

Don, you musted have missed the memo: http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-06-11-chevy11_ST_N.htm

The memo was later retracted, due to public outcry.

BTW, my Model T has 20 pferdpower.

 

Twist in dialect? Do you say rhythm, or rheethm? System or seestem? Cryptic or creeptic? Mythical or meethical?

C'mon people, it's phoenetically pronounced Will-iss. Willies sounds ridiculous. I noticed it's mostly buckeyes coming up with this goofy pronunciation, and everyone knows they can't speak English worth a damn.

 

Williss or Willeze either one attached to a steel coupe, I can not afford

Some folks used to pronounce Ford as Turd

 

Unless its a Willys Whippet!!! I have always heard it called Willeez like
Many
crazy
heavy
Bonny
Willy
****ty
pissy
Cody
Copy
I think Dialect is responsible.
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It`s Will-eaze to me and not about to change.

I never heard it called Willis in all my 53 yrs so far,until this thread.

 

Same here!

 

I have to make myself say Willis- and it seems to only be when I'm referring to a stock one.

-rick

 

Yes This guy is correct it is like Bruce Willis.

 

John Willys pronounced it, "Willis." There should be no further argument. We all hear people mispronounce words or use them incorrectly every day. Just because you "seen" something doesn't make it correct, "irregardless" of how many people say it. I have a friend that says, "masonary", even though he knows it is both spelled and pronounced "masonry". He says it sounds funny. Maybe it does, but I'll stick with "masonry", "Willis" and that I "saw" something the other day. I guess I'm turning into a grouchy old buzzard, but the degree of stupidity that we, as a culture, are slipping into is appalling. You can't even talk to anyone under 30, it sometimes seems, without every other word being "like", "dude" or "ya know"

 

I've heard it both ways. I don't see that it is an issue unless the original owner of the company or his relatives are offended by it.

Funny thing about wikipedia is that you don't have to substantiate anything you put on there.

 

Slightly O/T, but I miss the way our last president said, nukaler, like nukaler reactor.

 

Boring ****in day fellas????

 

S.P., no sneaking one by you, I dont know if I need a life or another drink..........

 

If you're going to mispronounce it, at least mispronounce it right. Nucular!

I always thought it was funny how the Brits proudly say 'aluminium.' Or worse yet, 'alloy!'

 

Will-eez for me. that's how I been pronounciating it. anyone who feels otherwise is a big dummy.

 

Will-is for stock ones (per the founder)
Will-ease for the hot ones that give you the willies....

 

I had the great honor of meet big john mazmanian before he p***ed away and i asked him this question. He put one of those big old hands on my shoulder and said "young lady if you pronounce it any other way than willis then your saying it wrong" I have always said willis since then.
G***er Girl

 

Case closed!!

 

55 posts later and ya still can't figure it out??? It's WIllys!! Plain and simple!

 

Maybe he just liked it sounding like it was from way south and thats how his illiterate parents said it. LOL! The correct grammar for this name should be pronounced Willeez.
If it was spelled Willis then thats how it should have sounded.
Just my opinion. I have never heard it called Willis. And I own one.

 

I agree w/RodStRace.......Willis for stock ones and Willeze for g***ers....................this way you only have to say Willis maybe once a year lol .

 

I have always said will-eez but I think it really is will-is, that just sounds weird to me

if a guy named billy had one that said
billys willys it would sound like "bill-eez,will-eez"

bill-is,will-is, just sounds wrong