Ukraine/The Ukraine
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Thu Jun 19 16:58:02 UTC 2014
That's "conservative" for you. BBC still says "Peking" while the US has gotten used to Beijing. It was the same story: the name was changed by request from the government, and it was awkward in the beginning but a couple of generations later it has become a norm. Trubachev's grandchildren will get used to it, if they are still in Russia.
Alina
On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Robert Orr <colkitto at rogers.com> wrote:
> "Ukraine" had already become commonplace in Canada while "The Ukraine" was still almost universal in Britain, and in the early 90's, I recall some British scholars being surprised at hearing "Ukraine".
>
> It was also in 1993 that I remember Oleg Trubacev expressing his displeasure, in a private conversation, at the "ухорежущее" nature of "в Украине".
>
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