How do you pronounce Sheikh?

[westcountrychicken]

Like "chic" or like "shake"?

Twi different (American admittedly) pod casts have pronounced it differently to me!

“Shake”

Shake.

I've always pronounced it "Shake"

Shake

Seek.
Like Sikh.

Like shake your booty although I have no idea if this is correct. That said the Fake Sheikh wouldn't have been called that if it didn't rhyme surely.

That's how I say it but they keep saying "chic", I didn't realise it was open to different pronunciations!

I live in the ME. It’s definitely “shake”

@snuggybuggy thats how I remember it. The frank zappa album, Sheikh yerbouti

Shake. It's never pronounced any other way on the news. Maybe with a slight "e" sound on the vowel rather than as in milkshake IYSWIM - shorter rather than long "a" .

Shake like shake your booty.

"Shake" is the acceptable pronunciation. If you want to say it properly, the "kh" sound at the end is a throaty "rr"

I just remember DH and his friend having a serious conversation about the Fake Sheikh and me and my other friend taking the opportunity to sing Shake Your Booty and have a bit of a dance in the street

Shake.

Definitely Shake.
I used to work for several middle Eastern royal families, it's definitely Shake.

One of our friends is a sheikh. He's very flamboyant and known for silly and extravagant purchases has (affectionately) earned the nick name "Sheikh-Your-Wallet". He refers to himself as it sometimes. It's definitely Shake. You can't Chic-Your-Wallet

... I was today years old when I learned this :o holy crap.

Shake in the UK, Chic in the US. They say all kinds of stuff differently there...

Shake as in milk shake but with the 'kh' noise.

Shake.
I'm 49 and have never met one. I've only ever heard it pronounced "Shake", but that's on U.K. media or in conversation with other people in the U.K.

Why would you say seek as in Sikh??! Bizarre!

I say shake. Not sure about US.

So is it
Sikh - seek
Sheikh - shake
British pronunciation?

Lived in 2 ME countries - most definitely Shake

It's sort of like a breathy shake... Sort of like shay-khh

Shake.

Americans americanise a lot of pronunciation of foreign words. "Click" for clique, "nitch" for niche, "erbs" for herbs of course and my brain is fried so that's all I can think of straight up.