‘Jai’ no ‘Jay’?

My understanding is that /dZai/ pronunciation for letter J is generally Scottish, and not restricted to Glasgow, or the west coast. It was a feature that really struck me when I first came up from England to work and live in Glasgow in the late 90s. But I heard it from speakers from Edinburgh/the East too.

Jane Stuart-Smith, Professor of Phonetics and Sociolinguistics at the University of Glasgow

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