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Replace to Kyiv, please!

It's a bit artificial to expect place names to cross language boundaries unscathed. It's not an offense to anyone that München is called Munich by English speakers. In English, the city is known as Kiev. Anything else reduces the number of people who can read what you're writing.

-written in Seattle, Washington...or would you prefer I call it siʔaɫ?

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

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.

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

Massachusetts is definitely still working on this... haha

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