Why we say "Kyiv" and not "Kiev": The difficulty of translating place names

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Mar 14 2022 | 00:04:54

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Historically, English speakers have referred to the Ukrainian capital city as “Kiev,” but you’ve likely seen a different spelling — “Kyiv” — in most of the recent coverage of the war in Ukraine.

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