Pronouncing Jei's name

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:28 -0700

I thought this topic might be a little too trivial to be given its own thread, but this question has been driving me bonkers for years, and there aren't enough USAGI fans in my part of the world to tell me.

How do you correctly pronounce Jei's name? Is it spoken as "gee", or does it sound more like "Jay"?

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:55 -0700

"jay" as in Jay-san (Jason, a pun on the character in the slasher film)

Post by **Todd Shogun** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:23 -0700

Okay, converted it...

http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/intro/pronunciation.html

Robweiller · Post by **Robweiller** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:07 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:"jay" as in Jay-san (Jason, a pun on the character in the slasher film)

... wow, never thought of that before

tayocham · Post by **tayocham** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:20 -0700

Robweiller wrote:
Steve Hubbell wrote:"jay" as in Jay-san (Jason, a pun on the character in the slasher film)
... wow, never thought of that before

I remember whe I first realized that. I thought it was brilliant. One of many brilliant things that kept me reading!

Cosmo · Post by **Cosmo** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:32 -0700

Note that "je" doesn't exist in Japanese as a native syllable. There's "ja", "ji", "jo" and "ju", but no "je", only "ji-e". So Jei must be a foreign name.