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    Posted: 13 Mar. 2010 at 2:57pm
since im a new flatty owner..i do not want to offend..but correcting most of the world is annoying...
 
i know how its supposed to be pronounced..but do most of you say willis or will-eaze?
 
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Willlyyyyyyyssss or will-ease LOL
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Strange as it is I've read a few arcticles that say the John North Willys family name was pronounced Willis. Who would know better how to pronounce their own name? However now and in the past 60 years at least seems everyone, me included says Will-ease. Don't know if it came from the war or before or what but think it will  be Will-ease forever more.
 
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around here willys are wagons and pickups.  i go with the 2a as to avoid confusion.
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Originally posted by westforkboyd westforkboyd wrote:

Strange as it is I've read a few arcticles that say the John North Willys family name was pronounced Willis. Who would know better how to pronounce their own name? However now and in the past 60 years at least seems everyone, me included says Will-ease. Don't know if it came from the war or before or what but think it will  be Will-ease forever more.
 
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I agree with Allen.  The correct pronunciation of the name is "willis" but almost all of us say "will-eeze," including me.
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I got a buddy in Tn that always says it "willis" and I agree with him but, I usually do the "will-eeze" myself.
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I pronounce it "jeep". I've known how to pronounce that since I was four. LOL
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It's Willis as heard in some of the early factory films.
Willeeeze is just the nick name.
 
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Like most I say will-eeze. For me it goes back to being a kid as thats what my buddies and I saw stamped on the hood and windshiled.

Although after learning the 'correct' pronunciation hanging out here, I do say Willis whenever it's attached to Overland.
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I have heard it pronounced at times as #@!%&##.
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Will eaze
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My girlfriend pronounces it "how much?"  . . . .

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When I talk to somebody who doesn't know jeeps, I say Willeze.
When I want to sound like I know what I'm talking about or am trying to be cool among jeep guys, I sometime say Willis!
98% of the time, I don't know what I'm talking about so I say Willeze!Big smile
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Well, I just always thought "will-eaze" was just a plural form of "Will-issss".LOL
 
I say Willis.
 
 
 
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silly dilly filly lilly willy                         Hummmmm
How would this work
sillis dillis fillis lillis willis 
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Some of us may say "Will-eze" BUT if you want to be correct maybe you should pronounce it the way the Founder of the company prefered his name pronounced:

 
Just a suggestion.
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"Willis-Nillis" Question

Everyone understands "Willy-Nilly" LOL
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