On 2019-10-03 14:01, Paul Eggert wrote:
It still may be a bit early to change. For what it's worth, news sources I read (New York Times, the Economist, the BBC) mostly use "Kiev". I lack time to do a survey and there's no rush, anyway.
Most of the English speaking world is unaware of the AP, NYT, WSJ, or what those initials stand for, and the NYT and others are paywalled. US Dictionaries have little distribution except as US references, lacking British spellings used around the world: Collins is the usual inexpensive standard elsewhere, Chambers the alternative: both Scottish publishers until recently, and both unabridged have been the *global* Scrabble standard; Oxford is the major English and more expensive option; Cambridge also publishes some. OTOH the BBC is free and open, the OED is paywalled, but both have global reach and authority: the latter appears to define /Kyiv/ as the *Ukrainian* name for /Kiev/; so Ukrainians should feel free to use it. ;^> -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.