Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.
iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.
And just a few weeks before the very same people were still calling the country the Ukraine. It was hysterical to see the very same people be very serious and very respectful about ~~the~~ Ukraines culture and language
Iran should return to the good old times before the revolution when the country was still called Aynrand and literally every woman was wearing bikinis all day so I can oogle at them. It was objectively better back then.
Holy fuck it took me way too long to realize this was a bit
In the liberal mind, "Kiev vs Kyiv" is equal to "Beijing vs Peking" or "Myanmar vs Burma" or "Uluru vs Ayer's Rock"
Rare British win.
Also though, a lot of people seem unreasonably upset about English speakers pronouncing words differently to how they are in their native languages when that's just how accents work.
Iran away from my wife 
When the media says or implies that Russian culture doesn't belong in Ukraine, don't take it as a statement of fact, take it as a statement of intent. They're priming people to accept ethnic cleansing.
But I thought Russia was committing genocide. CNN told me so and they never lie.
I still call it Kiev because all the TV people switching words on a dime freaked me out.
It's real 
shit when the entire media class just decides for geopolitical reasons the geographic name for a place everyone was used to using isn't usable anymore.
they can do this one instantly, but scores of media outlets either took forever or haven't even got Turkiye down yet
I still think a funny bit is just pretending to not accept the Cyrillic alphabet and calling it "Knib"
Tbh turkiye kinda weirds me out. I have never heard anyone complaon about it before.
unprovoked full scale invasion
It's like the whole "Ukraine" vs "the Ukraine" in English that the media did the same thing for. Russian and Ukrainian don't have definite articles. There is no such thing as "the" in either language. The thing they argue over between Russian and Ukrainian is what preposition to use when talking about something in the territory of Ukraine saying 'на украине' (~"na ookrayeenye") versus 'в украине' (~"v ookrayeenye") meaning essentially "on Ukraine" vs "in Ukraine."
Presumed to be a legacy of an assumed origin of the name Ukraine coming from
so Украина ("Ookrayeenah") under this assumed origin meaning something akin to 'of the outer-edge (of the Russian empire)' kind of like "borderland." It is common place especially with older generations to use на украине instead of в украине, though it also often both get used interchangeably.
That's its own whole mess of history, but US English doesn't have, at all, the historical quirk of "on Ukraine" so it would've always been normal and proper to just say "in Ukraine;" and by making a thing about "Ukraine" vs "the Ukraine" they invented a new problem to then argue about that has no corollary in Russian or Ukrainian to start with.
Probably "the Ukraine" started in English because some anglo dipshit heard the preposition "na" as similar enough to "the" (and la/le for other romance languages if they even knew that) to just assume it was a definite article, and now they won't shut up about it. It's like the origin I heard from a Korean friend that yanks originally made the g*** slur for Koreans because anglos are so unworldly and pig-ignorant they heard "miguk" from Koreans, which literally means "USA/American," and thought it was the Koreans calling themselves the slur, because they assumed "mi" part is like English "me" because, and I can not stress this enough, they are dumb as hell.
also its funny cuz nobody gets mad at the germans for saying "die Ukraine". In fact theres a bunch of country names in german that get used with a definite article, like die Slowakei, die Turkei, die Schweiz.
The g-slur goes back to the Spanish-American War and then the Filipino-American War. Americans in the Philippines thought Filipino languages sounded like "guk guk buk buk" the same way they think Mandarin is "King Kong ling long." It got shortened down to come up with the slur, which became more widespread when the Philippines tried to gain independence.
And because Americans are so racist, they used the same slur against Koreans and Vietnamese as though Asians are all interchangeable. Doesn't surprise me they thought "miguk" was Koreans using the slur in a "Well of course they call themselves that! They recognize the superior white man," kind of way.
I pronounce Kyiv so that it rhymes with "shiv".
But Iran, Iran so far away
Iran, I couldn't get away
why was 'e chasing you
And from UK media it is the same people who will call you a baby for calling it Derry. Even though in that case blood has legit been spilt over it and it stems from colonialism.
It always annoys me how bent out of shape people get over pronunciation of city and place names in other languages. Some languages have different sounds and thus things are said differently.
The Chinese word for Australia is "Audaliya" and even the frothist of frothers don't go complaining about it (I hope)
Chinese names for countries are cool. They try to be nice about it when there's more than one set of characters for something that sounds right (America is from the characters for "beautiful country" instead of "mildew country"), but when that's not possible you get really silly like Portugal being named "grape tooth." (There are also countries with literal translations.)
name for sweden sounds like they're still kinda mad about a very odd war that happened at some point
Red Wheat sounds like the title of a kickass video game, a fantastic western novel, a decent 80's action movie and an absolutely horrendous metaphor for menstruation.
germany
moral land
what the fuck
Deutschland
Deutsch
De
{德|dé} (meaning moral or virtuous)
{德国|déguó}
These are literal translations of names mostly chosen for sounding at least a little like the country's name in its own language
I assume it's because it's like "de" or something i.e. Deutschland
Russia
White Russia
B I L L Y T I M E
I don't know why Greece (Hope Wax) is labelled Hope December
the La (腊) in Xi La (Greece or Hellas) can mean wax but it also refers to method of food preservation in China called Waxing where meat is dried and cured to have a waxy exterior, this is commonly done in the winter and hence the 12th month in the Chinese Lunar calender (actually usually in January rather than December) is sometimes colloquially called the wax month
很有意思，谢谢
kosovo
I hope that's real because it's fucking hilarious 🤣
It is.
Kosovo is {科索沃|kē suǒ wò}
Good point.
I will now start saying, 'yidali', 'jianada', 'yingguo', and 'bumeiguo'.
Don't forget xibanya!
The most idiotic thing about this is that English pronunciation of both Kiev and Kyiv is equally far from both Russian and Ukrainian pronunciation.
Kiyev 
I support Ukraine so I say Kiyiv instead of kiyev
Honestly, in half the country (the east) Russian is if anything more indigenous than Ukrainian is.
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