Dec. 15, 2017
9:17 p.m.
Garrett Wollman said:
The Oxford English Dictionary, which is about as close to an authority on the English language as you'll find, has 31 uses of the name Kiev and none of Kyiv. Several are for "chicken Kiev" or other similar dishes.
Note that the OED explicitly considers proper nouns to be out of scope, unless they develop unrelated senses or change parts of speech.
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