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Question: How do you pronounce "Kiev?"
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Key-ev		  
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Keev (like "eve")		  
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« on: November 17, 2019, 12:06:57 AM »
Watching the public hearings this weeks has made me notice a disparity in how people pronounce it. Which do you think is proper way?
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2019, 12:16:09 AM »
I had my suspicions about this, but a quick glance at Wikipedia confirms it. The use of "Kiev"--which I adopted, albeit sans any particular political intention--comes from the Russian spelling/pronunciation "Киев". In Ukrainian, it's "Київ", which, per Wikipedia, produces the "Keev" pronunciation. 

I wonder if the disparity in pronunciation is reflective of any underlying political biases (like "Ukraine" versus "the Ukraine"), but I imagine more often than not it's simply a matter of what one was taught.
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2019, 12:27:31 AM »
Note that in Ukrainian, the letter v actually sounds like the English /w/ sound. Thus, the Ukrainian pronunciation is actually something along the lines of KIH-yeeoo.
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2019, 12:30:24 AM »
Quote from: TML on November 17, 2019, 12:27:31 AM
Note that in Ukrainian, the letter v actually sounds like the English /w/ sound. Thus, the Ukrainian pronunciation is actually something along the lines of KIH-yeeoo.


Hm. Must be our source for “nuclear wessels” and “wodka”. Chekhov was Ukrainian!
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2019, 12:48:46 AM »
Ambassador Taylor pronounced it "Kave"

Ambassador Yovanovitch pronounced it "Keev"

Chernobyl pronounced it "Key-ev" which is how I always read it.

I don't know what to believe.
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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2019, 12:53:56 AM »
Key-eff
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2019, 01:46:13 AM »
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2019, 01:48:29 AM »
Kyev, with a /j/ rather than an /i/.
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2019, 08:24:30 AM »
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« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2019, 10:45:02 AM »
Quote from: Cath on November 17, 2019, 12:30:24 AM
Quote from: TML on November 17, 2019, 12:27:31 AM
Note that in Ukrainian, the letter v actually sounds like the English /w/ sound. Thus, the Ukrainian pronunciation is actually something along the lines of KIH-yeeoo.


Hm. Must be our source for “nuclear wessels” and “wodka”. Chekhov was Ukrainian!

Don’t sadden me! Anton Yelchin was the best.
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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2019, 11:01:22 AM »
Key-ev like the chicken.  Cheesy Cheesy
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« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2019, 12:39:53 PM »
Key-yev.
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« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2019, 12:42:31 PM »
Keev
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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2019, 08:06:33 PM »
In hindsight I probably should have added an "other" option, but these are the two pronunciations I've heard the most frequently.
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« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2019, 12:50:47 AM »
Key-ev, like the rest of my Russian family.
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« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2019, 05:49:23 PM »
Quote from: Parrotguy on November 18, 2019, 12:50:47 AM
Key-ev Keeve, like the rest of my Russian family.
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