Settle a stupid bet... "Will-eez" or "Will-iss"?

Jeep or G***er it is a Will-ees to me.

 

Ask an American to pronounce "spyder."



Oh yeah, why does a chicken coop have two doors?







Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan! God I love that one...

 

always was and always will be for me willeez

I got a 40 willis
or
I got a 40 willeez

I'd say the latter sounds way better than owning a willis

 

I had a Willys and everyone I talked to called it a Willeez. Even the parts dealers I found called them Willeez. I'd say you say Willeez!

What you talkin bout Willis.

 

Yankees.

 

It's pronounced 'Yank-isssssssssssss'...

Yeah we're all gay.

 

Here where the Jeep has been made, I have always heard it pronounced Will-eez when talking about the Willys cars.

 

The Irish are never wrong. Sure its "pronounced" williss but it is "said" wilees. You can pronounce till your blue in the face, but the average joe is still going to call it wilees.

 

This post gives me the willeez.....

Yes I said willeez.

as in, welleez the clutch out in a bit, and go home.

DILLIGAF.

 

Willis?-"it's like wipin' before you poop, it just don't make sense."

Mootz

 

I have heard it pronoucned Will-eez all my life with the exception of a 2 - 3 people. I just don't think I can bring myself to saying, "did you see that '41 Will-iss g***er?"

And yes, I know a thing about ones name being missed pronounced.

Sean

 

Ask Willy Horton......

 

I think everybody has forgotten the original reason for this post.

Namely, to get me a free beer.

 

But if you talk about "Will-eez" in UK people will think you're talking about *****es?

Isn't language DOPE?

SamIyam got it right. words change pronunciation, spelling and meaning over time. And it's not just GAY...
Did ya know that Cadillac Bro-Ham which is spelled Brougham is supposed to be pronounced Broom?
Yes it is.
I'll bet a bottle of Worchestershire Sauce on it!
(How many ways is that name screwed up, even by the British?)

 

I always pronounce it as Will-eez. It's very rare to hear someone say Will-iss.

 

Worce - ster - shire. Worse-sta-sure.

Everbody from Boston knows Worcester is pronounced "Woostah".

Everybody from Austin knows Guadelupe is pronounced "Gwad-a-loop".

Everybody from San Antonio knows Bexar is pronounced "Bear".

Everybody from England knows Chalmondeley is pronounced "chum-lee."

 

You loose, you win, both are correct because we have what is called a "living language" that grows and changes and mutates.

Take for instance, the word "often."
When I was in the 5th or 6th grade (circa1959) we were informed that this word would no longer be pronounced "Off-ten" but instead, the "T" would be silent and it would be pronounced "Off-en".
And we were punished (only verbal abuse) for using the old "wrong" pronunciation.
My three year older brother, didn't get this bit of diction dictatorship foisted upon him so he still pronounces it "Off-ten" to this day.
Besides, He was born in England and has lived in the mid-west most of his life so his way of speaking is all weird anyway

 

How is GOW pronounced in Gow-Job?

Is it Gow as in Cow or Bow Wow?
or is it Gow as in Mow or Show Low?

 

You spell it "FISH," I spell it "GHOTI"

GH as in "laugh", O as in "women", TI as in "action"

 

I always heard it was pronounced "Go-Job," because it rhymed with another favorite thrill.

 

Huh? Plow job?

 

No wonder "English" is such a difficult language for "furriners" to learn!

 

"You say tomato I say tomahto."

I've heard it both ways and said it both ways. I'm sure if you had the right dictionary you could prove it one way or the other or not.

By the guy a beer and you'll still have a beer.

 

"Will-eez"

 

Maybe I'm just a **** (and I am), but this post and the HAMBer english lessons just made my day so much that I'll buy you a beer, Zenor! You just have to make it to Scottsdale to get it...

PS Will-eez as far as I've ever known...

Longroof

 

How about why-lees

 

If you drop the "S" would it be willi? I don't think so.

 

Ya know what irritates the hell out of me is when trying to have a conversation with someone, you'll be talking and the person you're talking too will interrupt you by repeating one of "those words" like we're talking about, the "other way" in an attept to correct the way you speak, and do it repeatedly.
I was talking to a woman, (it's usually women, I've found anyway, or maybe I don't usually try to have intellectual conversations with guys, in person because they are too apt to switch from thinking to fighting.) who kept parroting my words, almost one per sentence, and I just stopped and told her, "If you want me to continue you have to stop trying to make me speak "Boston." (which just happens to be where she was from.
And everyone else in the world knows Bostonians say everything "wrong" anyway!
They don't even have cars there... They have cahs!)

Nothing against Boston women by the way, I usta date one, who spoke "Boston" with a tinge of "V***ar", but she wasnt the one I was talking about above.

 

That's a Coyote
Why-lee Ky-yo-tee