WE ARE NOT SEEKS!
Diaspora Sikhs need to seriously make concerted efforts to stop mispronouncing "Sikh". It is NOT meant to be pronounced as "seek". In Punjabi spheres we use the correct pronunciation. We know the translation of ਸਿੱਖ. So when did it become "seek" and why allow it
Diaspora Sikhs need to seriously make concerted efforts to stop mispronouncing "Sikh". It is NOT meant to be pronounced as "seek". In Punjabi spheres we use the correct pronunciation. We know the translation of ਸਿੱਖ. So when did it become "seek" and why allow it
US/Canadian Sikhs have done better to ensure "Sikh" is pronounced properly within the mainstream. However, in the UK, we need to undo 100+ years of accepting an incorrect pronounciation. I take it on board that I too have been conditioned into the incorrect pronounciation.
This is not a minor thing, if from the outset we cannot hold our ground on how "Sikh" should be pronounced then what hope do we have for defending Sikh identity, values and culture. We cannot even protect the pronounciations out of fear of not fitting in.
Time to reset and eradicate these kinds of bad habits we have embedded out of sheer complacency over decades or avoidance of assertion.
Glad others are picking up on it. Can only change through conscious resetting of unnecessary anglicised pronunciations and superfluous use of Sikh (often by organisations themselves) as a homophone for Seek/Seeking.
https://twitter.com/learnpunjabi/status/1420368791507197957?s=19
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