Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations

Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by to3m on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:23PM (#13586423)

Peking, Bombay, Upper Volta, Rhodesia and Burma have all managed to make the transition - and with more than a simple tweak to the transliteration to boot. So I don't see why we can't manage the same with Kiev?

Random article: http://www.businessinsider.com/kiev-or-kyiv-2014-1

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Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by free652 on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:30PM (#13586463)

Kyiv, Kyyiv or whatever is freaking impossible to pronounce for an English speaker. Should have gone with Kiiv, much easier to pronounce and somewhat closer to Ukrainian pronunciation.

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Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by flukus on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:37PM (#13586790)

We're still working on writing English cities in English, Gloucester, Leicester, etc.

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Re:Living in Kiev: My first 3 months of observations by _q1cj on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:37PM (#13591454)

Massachusetts is definitely still working on this... haha

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