Simple but Valid question

[Demessie]

Me and my friends pronounce it 'yow-ee'. Because that rhymes with wowie. And as such, yaoi is wowie.  

[Rock Paper Tofu]

Kurama Babe

I pronounce it yah-oi

Yeah me too but Ya-oi, yeah kinda like how it looks. sweatdrop  

[Pax et lux]

Quote:

The English letters form an acronym derived from the Japanese phrase 「ヤマなし、オチなし、意味なし」 (yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi), that is often translated into English as, "no climax, no punch line, no meaning." A variant English translation, "No peak, no point, no problem," is often preferred as a translation that "works." However, an alternate etymology derives it from 「止めて！お尻の穴（が）痛い！」 "Yamete, oshirinoana (ga) itai" which literally means "Stop, my a*****e hurts," although this is largely disregarded by scholars of Japanese language and culture.

Heh. I love research.  

[Darktl]

Ya-o-i

That's the way I say it.  

[xsparklesx]

I've always said it like "yow-ee" but I think that's the mispronunciation. Soo... I'mma try and start saying it the right way now. XD  

[Riosin]

I say it as 'Yow-ee' as in 'Yowee! My a**!"  

[ravenb0w]

At first I would pronounce yaoi as "yah-oy". But then my brother told me it's pronounced "yow-ee". I believe he's pretty good with the pronuciation of the japanese letters...  

[Aeronwyn]

I know Japanese pronounciation, but I've always pronounced it "yay-oh" - probably because I didn't know how to pronounce it when I first read it and my initial idea stuck with me. So anyway, I was talking to someone about it not long ago and they were like "what? ya-oh-ee you mean?". I just nodded a little shamefacedly, I hate being wrong... Lol.