Speculation: the long i sound, as in bye or hi is better represented phonetically for non-English speakers as bai or hai. The letter i is phonetically pronounced like a long e in some languages (e.g. (in Spanish because that's the only other language I sorta know) aqui). So, bai, is sort of like "baa-ee"
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- mark 10-24-2008 3:13 am