Spanish-speakers, how do you pronounce the name "Jaime"?

[ThelmaLou]

@I.Dunno

When MLB pitcher Jaime Garcia (a Mexican) was playing in my town, the radio and TV announcers pronounced it High May. There was maybe a slight accent on the first syllable.

I never heard Garcia himself pronounce it.

I like that. It’s a blend of the two pronunciations I started with,

[FlikTheBlue]

The dialect I speak is South Texas Spanish. The first syllable is pronounced high and the second like met without the t at the end, definitely not with an ay sound.

[Justy5]

Hi Meh - Jaime That is what it sounds like to me in Spanish. Jamey in English.

[SpoilerVirgin]

@ThelmaLou

(Referring to “high-mee”) High-mee sounds Yiddish to me.

That reminds me – I once worked with a woman who was always talking about her husband Hymie, whom I pictured as a little old Jewish man. Eventually I learned that he was actually Jaime. At least in that instance, the pronunciations were identical.

[pulykamell]

@Flyer

It’s perfectly obvious to everybody (except IPA snobs) what she meant.

Heh. Only on the Dope would “IPA snobs” not refer to beer drinkers.

But guizot does have a bit of a point, as I’ve never heard it pronounced as “hah-MAY,” with an “ah” sound in the first syllable and the stress on the second, so I’m wondering if another pronunciation is intended there. The way I hear it, it’s closest to “HIGH-meh” in English, but with the “eh” like an “AY” sound without the “y” diphthong part at the end.

[DPRK]

@SpoilerVirgin

That reminds me – I once worked with a woman who was always talking about her husband Hymie, whom I pictured as a little old Jewish man. Eventually I learned that he was actually Jaime. At least in that instance, the pronunciations were identical.

AFAIK Hymie/Haim is actually a different Hebrew name. Jaime/James/Diego are variants of “Jacob”.