Q ~~ agree re "gay Paree" ~ but surely said facetiously & tongue-in-cheek?

Richard ~ assure you re Marsales & Lions ~ how I was brought up to them in the 1930s. & there is a well-known Victorian play [by Boucicault, I think] called The Lyons Mail, definitely pronounced "Lions". But indeed never Wipers: just one of those inconsistencies I rubricate in thread title! For that matter, always Nice to sound like 'niece', not 'nice'...

~Michael~