Why do ISKCON devotees pronounce Sanskrit words differently from traditional pronunciations?

From Anuj A P:
For example, why is the nasal Nrsimha pronounced as Narasimha?

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thank you question from Anujagarwal why are the pronunciations of many Sanskrit words different from the traditional pronunciations for example instead of the nasal we use in scone and similarly there are other words also which are pronounced differently that is and there is so which is the correct pronunciation and why are there differences in pronunciation like this answer pronunciation is not always something that is prescriptive frequently it is also descriptive in general in the study of language there are these two aspects, there is prescriptive that means this is how it should be done and then there is descriptive, this is how it is done and language is not something which is frozen cold, language is a living reality and that’s why quite often the descriptive comes over to the prescriptive so for example in English some words are there which are used in conversation, for example whodunit, now whodunit is a shorthand for who has done it and it is used especially in mystery novels, now whodunit was a way which people spoke and gradually it came into English so it is now become part of the way English is so just as there can be words which can move from descriptive to prescriptive similarly pronunciation can also move from descriptive to prescriptive so there are words like scheduled and sheduled they are pronounced differently and in different parts of the world both are accepted so the important point is that yes the nasal sound of drishumha was the way the word was pronounced traditionally but for a significant amount of time and not just within the Christian conscious movement but in other circles also narasimha is also an acceptable form of pronunciation so in general we don’t have to make a big issue about pronunciations of course in some cases some pronunciations are grammatically wrong and they are also not acceptable colloquially so then at times we have to definitely correct but where there are this form of pronunciation which are going on for a significant amount of time we don’t have to make it an issue to campaign about if we feel more comfortable pronouncing it with the nasal drishumha that is fine but we don’t have to campaign against those who use narasimha as a pronunciation.
Thank you. Hare Krishna.