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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko (hexbear.net)
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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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[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Start using "Jifu" and "Yilang"

[-] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

People out here still pronounce karaoke as "carry-okey"

Just trying to figure out where that "ee" sound is coming from.

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

English speakers are naturally suspicious of the letter a - is it the a as in "snake", "apple", "father", "ball" or "many".

[-] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

But like.....e?????? It sounds like some cracker tried to pronounce the word and didn't bother saying it right so they just called it that

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

I pronounce it

"care-uh-oak" as Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ intended.

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