...there was a Kiev before there was a Moscow. (By the way, it isn’t pronounced keev as in keen, but kuh-YEEV in Ukrainian and KEY-yev in Russian.)
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Don’t you just love it when elites tell you you’ve been doing it wrong? After decades of pronouncing and spelling the city as “Kiev”, suddenly we’re told the name is “Kyiv”, and it has always been “Kyiv”, and you’re an ignoramus if you think otherwise.
I call names by their American iced versions. For that is my chosen language
Col-bert for that officious twit.
Italy for Italia
Most groups call the States using their own language
Didn’t you get the memo about Daesh rather than ISIS?
“Don’t you just love it when elites tell you you’ve been doing it wrong? After decades of pronouncing and spelling the city as “Kiev”, suddenly we’re told the name is “Kyiv”, and it has always been “Kyiv”, and you’re an ignoramus if you think otherwise.”
Reminds me of Bill Clinton ‘educating’ us on the pronunciation of Kosovo, when he called it Kasava, like a drink or something.
And then you have John Kerry calling the great leader from the past Jenghis Khan.