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https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

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[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 month ago

I always spell it as Kijów XD

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 month ago
[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

For some reason I thought of Kraków, and foreigners pronouncing it as Crack Cow.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

It's correct pronounciation though, or at least should be considering what's happening there.

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah it makes sense

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