How do you pronounce "Sikh"?

[@chrisgardner6677]

Mahalo! I just heard a reporter on tv say “sick” & now I know cuz of you! Following!!!

[@ajooni6154]

Mahalo! Cool! Yeah, I still say “sick” too :)

[@roguebotanist]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[@PKWads2]

You've got a lovely voice. You should try become a voice actor or and audio book reader 😁

[@bigbowl37]

Also a beautiful smile!

[@danswartz2525]

For real. Great voice for media!

[@urlostCD]

Voice actress*

[@qwertycert]

thanks for clearing this up!! also i love your decor its a wonderful color scheme!!!

[@ajooni6154]

Oh thank you for watching! Haha, it's a friend's house and I will let them know ;)

[@Slurm_Daddy92]

Namaste! 🙏

[@JennHenryCreatives]

I came for a pronunciation, and am leaving with so much more. Thanks for this.

[@moanalovekhalil]

Put respect on it!!!!

[@danzwku]

Thanks for the video.

[@wev2344]

I also pronounced this as “sick” and “six”. I’m glad that I was not wrong.

[@ChewieCycle]

You've got a lovely face too. And thanks for clearing up the debate that I had going about this.

[@Gunbudder]

I'll never forget the first Sikh man i met in person. of course i had seen men wearing traditional Sikh clothes on TV, but i always though they were muslim. this is a very common mistake where i live because we have almost no Muslims or Sikhs at all. At any rate, i met a SIkh man at a 7/11 where he was working as a cashier. he has to be one of the most pleasant and generous man i've met. i loved talk to him and he never had anything negative to say really about anything. And on one very drunken visit to 7/11 my friends and i asked him something about Islam, assuming he was Muslim. he explained he was Sikh and told us a bit about what that means. He did pronounce it as "seek" though. i had never even heard the word before, and i had to look it up later to learn more about it. If i was born with no religion and i had to pick one now, it would very likely be Sikh

[@JamesLamb]

Thanks. When I was younger I always heard seek but now I seem to be hearing sick. But I'm also in a different country now, and even the commercials say Nis-sawn, whereas in the other country they say knee-sawn. I had a co-worker named Suchitra, and English speakers were afraid her pronunciation sounded too much like Soo-sheet-tra (sheet thinking excrement) , so when we weren't calling her doctor, it was changed to Soo-chee.

[@JamesLamb]

I think we mostly called her Dr., but she did want to be less formal among co-workers. We did always use Dr. for the head of the department.

[@Khaleesi-g3e]

Please do more videos to teach us

[@moanalovekhalil]

I love you AND I love this video teaching me! You are so beautiful my sister! I am looking forward to seeing more videos of yours and I am looking forward to hugging you! I LOVE YOU AJOONI! xoxoxxoxo

[@EvanNally]

Thank you for clearing that up!

[@emj970]

Thank you ❤

[@inspire24x]

sikh here. it's NOT seek. it's SIKH. "seek" came to be because of non-sikhs' misinformed/incorrect pronunciation - you shouldn't mispronounce it to tailor it to non-sikhs'. teach them how to say it properly therefore they won't automatically think you're "sick."

[@ajooni6154]

I agree and pronounce it as you do

[@PRINCEBABYBOY305]

So it's not seek or sik? How do you pronounce it?

[@inspire24x]

@@PRINCEBABYBOY305 similar to "sick," just with an aspirated H at the end.

[@kaurm22]

The word sikh actually comes Sikkhī which means to learn, which is closer to the pronunciation "sick" not seek. I have never heard the pronunciation seek until i was older from non-sikh people. Yes you can call anything really anything you want but it does not make it what it was supposed to be originally. And yes we all have been made fun of for calling it sick cause idiots exist everywhere.

[@Paloyp]

This makes sense. Thanks

[@fundagiray8099]

Can u also pronounce sikhism? I try to find a nicer way to pronounce it because in my language it sounds like way worse than english. By the way, Im Turkish.

[@mrexpress8002]

its pronounced sick

[@russellsage4953]

Punjabis pronouns the word Sic One can hear its root as Sik-hee Colonials redefine the world, and then all comply Respect to the Sikh person in the video, but IMHO westerners should learn to pronounce the word ❤️

[@katlovegood4921]

yes but i still hate it when non sikhs say seek and im a sikh

[@ajooni6154]

Totally valid

[@surdeepsound]

Cute af...

[@lewisjones284]

It’d be fair to say that half of the people saying ‘seek’ say it that way because they have no idea that it’s wrong, my past self included

[@mrexpress8002]

You cannot say it either way. Sikh is pronounced as sick and not seek.

[@laneeardink9849]

Was it a Sick, Seek, or Sikh that blew up the Air India flight out of YVR airport in Vancouver, BC, Canada?

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Neither, that was a terrorist.

[@terrireeves4708]

What's your point? There are criminals, murderers, rapists and yes terrorists of every religion, race and nationality. Are you "just asking questions?" (intense sarcasm)