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Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.
iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.
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The most idiotic thing about this is that English pronunciation of both Kiev and Kyiv is equally far from both Russian and Ukrainian pronunciation.
Because the script for English is stupid, and I'm not sure why it hasn't been phased out with something like Shavian. "a" can have the "ah" sound (alternative), the "ae" (amazing) sound and the "eh" sound (bad). Similarly, "e" can have the "ae" sound (elephant), "aih" sound (eye) and the "i" sound (economy).
On a similar note, karma (कर्म) is not spelt as car-muh, it's cur-mha.
Are you sure that bad isn't baed and elephant isn't something else?
I should have used IPA symbols - alphabets are not the right way to represent phonetics.