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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.

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[โ€“] Hexboare@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

English speakers are naturally suspicious of the letter a - is it the a as in "snake", "apple", "father", "ball" or "many".

But like.....e?????? It sounds like some cracker tried to pronounce the word and didn't bother saying it right so they just called it that