https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

  • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      If english speakers weren't specially insufferable about pronunciation then maybe they wouldn't care.