Subject: (Fwd) Pronounciation of Jain

From: "Raphael Carter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 19:53:03 -0700

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Subject: Pronounciation of Jain
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 11:13:51 -0600

John McKenzie asked:

> I have always heard "Jain" pronounced like the female name "Jane" as in 
> ryming with "rain". But recently I heard someone pronounce it 
> differently. He said somthing the sounded more like "jiain" where the 
> fist 'i' was a long like "eye" and the "ain" was like in "rain" but 
> shorter. Do you know which is right. 

It does not matter, it can be pronounced either way and will be understood.

It is a sanskrit word written as:

     \|
  ----------
    _|  o-| 
 \_| |    |

Thus the correct pronunciation should ryme with English "ran" or "ban". 

Yashwant