"Charles C Culotta,Jr." wrote:

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In the islands of the British Caribbean, where we speak a sometimes-
unintelligible language we call "English," we pronounce "cay" as "key"
also.  Many American touroids, trying to pronounce what they see in
writing, pronounce it "kay."  Bring money.  Leave some of it here.
Pronounce things any way you want.  Thank you.  :)

Bob

Bob Conrich                      bob@eastcaribbean.com
Blackgarden Bay
Anguilla
British West Indies

bob@eastcaribbean.com writes:

Good attitude, Bob. Coming from a part of the world where we don't
have (but wished we would) some nice warm keys, cays or quays to
sunbath on, I checked my undisputable Canadian GAGE Dictionary and
find that all means the same: "Low lying flat rocky island" from the
Spanish "cayo",  and may be pronounced any way you want it (which is
what Bob said in the first place). If you ever spot a Canadian
"Touroid", you'll be able to identify them by the suffix "-eh" at the
end of almost anything they say. As in "lets go visit the Florida
Keys, eh". (Or should that have been Cays or Quays)?