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I newer saw correctly spelled name of Kyïv (Kyiv, Kiev) city in English texts.

• Symbiote 6y ago
  Kyiv is the official form according to the Ukraine government/mapping agency (according to Wikipedia). The most common English spelling is Kiev. That reflects the English pronunciation. (The British one anyway.) But many significant European cities with a long history have a different name in English than the local languages: Cologne, Munich, Florence, Naples, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Prague.
  • dmurray 6y ago
    This isn't just Anglophones being boorish and Anglocentric, either. Those cities also have different names in German or, more obviously, Chinese.
    • Symbiote 6y ago
      Indeed, and naturally British and Irish cities have different names in other (European) languages. In French: Douvres, Londres, Édimbourg. In German: Edinburg. In Italian: Edimburgo, Glascovia, Londra, Novocastro, Dublino. In Chinese: Jiànqiáo (剑桥) (lit. "sword bridge", Cambridge)
• gdy 6y ago
  Have you ever wondered why Russians are indifferent to the fact that Moskva is spelled Moscow in English?
  • allarm 6y ago
    Because we don’t really care.