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Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.
iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.
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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
We're not going to succeed in making English the dumbest lingua franca by making the sounds match the letters.
20 vowel sounds for five vowel letters is language perfection
If elected president, I will do nothing but push for a phonetic alphabet.
Your pronunciation examples confuse me greatly. "ah" from "alternative"? "eh" from "bad"? Certainly not in my accent.
Could be a Kiwi.
Have you heard them say "not bad"?
Bitter then e sith ifriken
๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ฉ๐ฏ ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ช๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ก๐ณ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐๐ช๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ต ๐๐ฉ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ต ๐ค๐ป๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ถ ๐๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ฑ๐ฏ
love going on anglo wickypedia and looking up a country, city, or non-anglo person from history
pronunciation guides are first in some anglo gibberish fo-NEY-ticks with big SHOU-ty letters and nonsensical spelling, for some weird anglo pronunciation, and then IPA for the [weird] anglo pronunciation, and then the pronunciation in local language
por ejemplo
Hexbear (US: HAYKZ-buhr [IPA: 'hejks,bษ:r]) (UK: HEKS-beh[IPA: 'heksbษถ:] ) (Marxist Standard: Hexbear [IPA: hรคx'bษหษพฬผ])
Are you sure that bad isn't baed and elephant isn't something else?