We're writing in English. We call other places by our own names and spellings. For example, Hungary doesn't use that name for itself. Neither does the Netherlands and a lot of other places. We used to determine the spellings we were going to use in English writing for ourselves. This is the first time I've seen a different spelling for Kiev.
The spelling in the article is not correct either, as they didn't use the proper characters. :)
Russians will also refer to The Ukraine.....like it's still a region of Russia/USSR.....kind like if King George kept referring to the US and his colonies.
The country is just Ukraine and that's the proper style.
"Kiev."
Are they changing all the spellings?
First it was Peking to Beijing. We're in the US. We should spell things the way we want to.
Russian and Ukranian are two separate languages. It was called Kiev when it was part of the USSR.
the Peking Beijing thing I think was about the original pronunciation just being wrong.
We're writing in English. We call other places by our own names and spellings. For example, Hungary doesn't use that name for itself. Neither does the Netherlands and a lot of other places. We used to determine the spellings we were going to use in English writing for ourselves. This is the first time I've seen a different spelling for Kiev.
The spelling in the article is not correct either, as they didn't use the proper characters. :)
It's basically something the Ukraine has been pushing for a while. The AP updated its style guide on this in 2019. https://blog.ap.org/announcements/an-update-on-ap-style-on-kyiv
Russians will also refer to The Ukraine.....like it's still a region of Russia/USSR.....kind like if King George kept referring to the US and his colonies.
The country is just Ukraine and that's the proper style.
BTW, a lot of people refer to "The Carpenters," but Karen Carpenter insisted it was just "Carpenters."