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@wolfgang59 said"One" would really be sticking one's neck out if mis-pronouncing Beijing.
At the risk of an attack by "she-who-cannot-be-named"
for being willfully [sic] ignorant ... is everyone spelling
Ukraine's capital Kyev now?
What next?
Rome insisting on Roma?
The UK deriding the French for Londres?
If one were to say Peking, for example, one might be forced to "duck!"
@wolfgang59 saidI will expect you to call that peninsula to your south España from now on.
At the risk of an attack by "she-who-cannot-be-named"
for being willfully [sic] ignorant ... is everyone spelling
Ukraine's capital Kyev now?
What next?
Rome insisting on Roma?
The UK deriding the French for Londres?
@athousandyoung saidOtago Peninsula?
I will expect you to call that peninsula to your south España from now on.
@wolfgang59 saidUkrainian spelling is "Kyiv". I don't think anyone spells it "Kyev".
At the risk of an attack by "she-who-cannot-be-named"
for being willfully [sic] ignorant ... is everyone spelling
Ukraine's capital Kyev now?
A lot of cities in that part of the world have a lot of names because they've been part of various different empires and nations over the years and accordingly got named in many different languages. The major city of Western Ukraine was Lemberg as part of the Habsburg Empire, Lwow when it was Polish in the interwar years, Lvov under Soviet rule, and now Lviv in independent Ukraine.
@teinosuke saidCorrect.
Ukrainian spelling is "Kyiv". I don't think anyone spells it "Kyev".
Typo ... I meant Kyiv.
