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Comment by Svoka

4 days ago

Ukraine's capital is misspelled "Kiev". Should be "Kyiv"

Just for a bit of context, this site is from over a decade ago, at which point almost everyone outside of Ukraine used the old spelling of Kiev, despite the official transliteration change to Kyiv from 1995 [0]. Ukraine ended up having to run the KyivNotKiev [1] campaign to get other countries to adopt the new spelling, which mostly gradually happened over the last few years. But I think it's a bit much to expect every resource out there to retroactively update their spelling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Kyiv

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev

  • Thank you for westsplaining me my history.

    It was always Kyiv. Your (personal or collective) ignorance and/or obsession over moscowite imperiealists doesn't change the name of my city.

Kiev is a perfectly valid English spelling.

  • Love when people try to explain me how to call my city.

    • Yeah, in English. Turns out you cannot choose how other languages refer to your country or your city, who would've guessed ?

      Please only refer to Ethiopia as ܟ݁ܽܘܫ from now on. They know how their country is called.