I believe it's a native spelling vs standardized Soviet naming convention thing from the USSR days. They're trying to go back to what they feel is a traditional, pre-Soviet name.
Personally, I think you can successfully ID someone's position on the matter by their use of Kiev/Kyiv with a pretty high level of accuracy.
Yeah, there is always some historical or legitimate part to the comms, they have to hide that way or the public would notice. I don't think it's a coincidence that Putin is removing the Y as he removes the deep state.
Киев is the Russian spelling, Ки́їв is the Ukrainian spelling. I have no idea why the English transliteration is using a "y" instead of "i". From what I can deduce Ukrainians pronounce it "Keeyiv", while the Russian pronunciation is "Keeyev". Putting a y instead of i (transliteratively), makes no sense to me. BTW, I've heard Russian speakers use an "i" sound almost interchangeably with the "eh" sound. My confusion deepens.
Should be Kiev right? Putin is removing the 'Y.' Am I understanding the implications of that correctly?
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I believe it's a native spelling vs standardized Soviet naming convention thing from the USSR days. They're trying to go back to what they feel is a traditional, pre-Soviet name.
Personally, I think you can successfully ID someone's position on the matter by their use of Kiev/Kyiv with a pretty high level of accuracy.
Yeah, there is always some historical or legitimate part to the comms, they have to hide that way or the public would notice. I don't think it's a coincidence that Putin is removing the Y as he removes the deep state.
Do the globalists now order Chicken Kiyiv?
You are spot on about the y.
Киев is the Russian spelling, Ки́їв is the Ukrainian spelling. I have no idea why the English transliteration is using a "y" instead of "i". From what I can deduce Ukrainians pronounce it "Keeyiv", while the Russian pronunciation is "Keeyev". Putting a y instead of i (transliteratively), makes no sense to me. BTW, I've heard Russian speakers use an "i" sound almost interchangeably with the "eh" sound. My confusion deepens.
I was wondering that myself as I saw on Google Maps suddenly the name is spelled with a Y and was wondering "when the hell did that happen?"
I dunno, but it makes no linguistic sense at all.
They are claiming the spelling with the y (DS) is to symbolize a free and independent Ukraine.
Right. And if it were spelled with a “y” it would make an “ooo” sound. Thus, would never work in the word Kiev.
Yeah, English Y = Russian OOO. That's one more reason the "y" doesn't make sense.