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Anonymous /ck/21467995#21469260
7/15/2025, 6:17:09 PM
>>21468420
The English-language exonym for the city is Kiev, it always has been. Like how we say Cologne for Köln, Copenhagen for København, Ulster for Ulaidh, Naples for Napoli, or Vienna for Wien.
It's only recently with the Post-Soviet civil war that some Americans have hyper-corrected to the Ruthenian "Kyiv" spelling as a form of political statement of solidarity with the Zelensky regime.
It is perfectly acceptable to use the standard exonymic form that one's native language provides when discussing foreign places. I don't expect a Chinaman to pronounce the US as anything other than Meiguo when they are speaking in Mandarin. The term "Kiev" is not political in itself, it is not a reaffirmation of Russian cultural dominance, it is simply the historical English-language name for a city in the Ukraine.