How do you say Kyiv?
It's a sign of respect when you learn to pronounce someone's name the way they pronounce it themselves. The same is true for the capital city of Ukraine.
And so today, in response to a question that many of us have as we listen to frequent updates on a possible war in Europe, we are taking you deep into the conversation about how we wrap our American accents around the name of the city at the center of this conflict.
Even though this city, Kyiv, sounds more familiar to many American ears when you say it the Russian way, the actual residents of that city have their own language and their own pronunciation. With the Russian army perched on the border of Ukraine, you see the problem with that old pronunciation, right? Using the language of the threatening neighbors is more than inaccurate, it's disrespectful.
As we were looking into the evolution of the pronunciation of Kyiv, we learned that journalists often take their cues from the . There's some irony in that, given our second
