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Definitely a thing in the UK, it's how the Oxford English Dictionary says it's pronounced (noting that it's different in the US).

I have heard too many people say "jally pea no", but the most frequent pronunciation of jalepeño is with a hard j

It's adapted into my language as junta with hard /j/ so yes, it's a thing

Don‘t worry the French are not better as the word is junte in French with a [ʒ] sound

There is no equivalent to the Spanish /j/ in French. Besides, the -e ending instead of the Spanish -a should tell you that it has been adapted and is used as a loanword, a French word of Spanish origin, not a Spanish word.

Spanish itself is full of loanwords, particularly from Arabic, which are not pronounced like in Arabic either (which Arabic, anyway?)

There is no better or worse, there are just words that travel across languages.

It was a joke! And in French we tend to either keep or not the original pronunciation. A funny one is mojito where the j is always replace by a French r.

yes, this is a real thing