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2006-10-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

U.S. government changes spelling of capital to Kyiv instead of Kiev

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Posted by .com 2006-10-21 10:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Of course, they don't spell it Kiev or Kyiv, but use Cyrillic letters. How we translate to Roman letters is our business.

Same with China. I usually use "Peking," because that's what it was when I was growing up and I'm too old to learn new spelling tricks.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-10-21 15:12|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-10-21 15:12|| Front Page Top

#2 China is one of the more maddening ones around. Not only did they change the English spellings, most of which were originally done by the British, but they also changed the pronounciation spellings.

I found this out when trying to translate the name of some Chinese herbs. About the only thing you could really do was find the latin word for the herb, and hope the Chinese form was the same plant, which it was only about half the time.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-21 15:43|| 2006-10-21 15:43|| Front Page Top

#3 so is it Kyiv Chyickin?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-10-21 16:00|| 2006-10-21 16:00|| Front Page Top

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