Pronouncing the letter J

I am English and went to school in the south of England. I have lived in a number of places in the UK including Liverpool, Rotherham, Bristol and Cardiff. I have only ever heard "j" pronounced to ryme with "hay". My friend from Edinburgh tells me that she pronounces it to rhyme with "hay". Maybe it is a local pronunciation from your region.

I hope this helps

Sounds Cockney to me, but then I'm from the other side of the pond.

I think it's peculiar to West Central Scotland. I'm from Aberdeenshire and always pronounced J like Hay. When I first moved to the Glasgow area in my twenties it confused me to hear everyone pronouncing it rhyming with eye instead - something I'd never encountered before. Everyone from this area seems to say it that way though.

I'm from the South-West of Scotland and was taught it as j (eye), as was my fiancé; although he insists it is jay, when getting him to recite alphabet, he pronounces it j (eye), so this supports j (eye)! I moved and now teach in an Aberdeen school and was taken aback to hear my class pronounce it as jay, as I thought j (eye) was the Scottish pronunciation. I will not change the way I say it, so

I'm from Falkirk in Scotland and was always taught that the letter was pronounced j as in eye. Wasn't until my English friend asked me what on earth I was talking about that I realised this wasn't the normal British way of saying it. Interesting.

I am from Scotland and also always knew it to be said rhyming with eye, and thought of "jay" as american. I only realised today this was uncommon when it was pointed out to me that I was "saying it wrong"

Both my parents grew up in Edinburgh in the 50's and 60's and they were taught the 'Jye' (rhymes with eye) pronunciation. Both pronunciations are correct and differ only depending on what you were taught. It's the same as the letter 'aitch' which in some parts of the UK might be pronounced 'haitch'. What matters is how you use the phonetic sound in a word containing the letter.