[Ads-l] pronunciation of the capital of Ukraine

[Martin Purdy]

The Ukrainian version of the name transliterates as Kyiv, and there seems to be a trend toward adopting native-language spellings and (approximate) pronunciations in English these days, which may explain it.
I still get grumpy when I see people write München or Köln in English as it looks pretentious, but since Kiev is the Russian rather than the Ukrainian version, this one doesn't bother me as much
Martin NZ

 

    On Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 04:35:57 PM GMT+13, David K. Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com> wrote:  
 
 Recently I've heard news media people saying

 

'ki:v  

 

Rather than what I recall hearing heretofore as

 

'ki: ev

 

What do residents of that city say?

 

Regards to all, 

David


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