<div>Hi Irena, </div>
<div>Fluent Ukrainian speaker, as I am, will say Ky-jiv in all situations. I think you had experience NOT with people who speak Ukrainian naturally, but with those who speak Russian naturally and know Ukrainian. They present themselves to you as Ukrainians but in reality they are Russian speakers from Ukraine. For them it is subconscious to say Ki-ev, especially when they say it "in English" :))
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<div>Fershtain? ;)</div>
<div>-- Mykola </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Voitsekhovsky</b> <<a href="mailto:pvoitsekhovsky@gvpt.umd.edu">pvoitsekhovsky@gvpt.umd.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I would like to take this questiion further.<br><br>Why is it that speakers of Ukrainian who know perfectly well that the
<br>US capital's name is [wOshington] in English, still say [va-shing-TON]<br>in Ukrainian (same as in Russian)?<br><br>Petro<br><br>>>> K&I Bell <<a href="mailto:kib@magma.ca">kib@magma.ca</a>> 10/16/06 3:07 PM >>>
<br>Dear Mova -<br> I wonder why even those who are well-informed and use Kyiv<br>instead<br>of Kiev in writing,<br> still, in speaking, pronounce it in Ukrainian and English, as<br>Ki-yev<br>instead of Ky-yiv ?
<br> Why ? I don't get it .....<br> Irena<br><br></blockquote></div>