Jai Rodriguez is an actor and the culture expert on the American television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
― Anonymous User 1/4/2006
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I first came across this variant in the excellent novel "Olivia and Jai" by Rebecca Ryman. For a long time, I assumed it was pronounced "jye" (rhymes with "eye"). But then the authoress used a Hindu phrase I knew how to pronounce, in which "ai" sounded like "ay."