[tz] Change Request: Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv

[Garrett Wollman]

On August 15, 2020 6:19:08 PM EDT, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

>Many sources are using "Kyiv", as you mentioned; but many are also
>using "Kiev". 
>A Google web search today from Los Angeles reports about 48 million
>results for 
>"Kyiv" and about 108 million for "Kiev", and a Google News search
>reports about 
>4.1 million for "Kyiv" and about 9.4 million for "Kiev". This
>(admittedly 
>quick-and-dirty) sanity check suggests that "Kyiv" is not yet the
>consensus 
>spelling.

I did a more reliable Google Ngram search, which shows the usage in edited text, and found that while the Official Government spelling is clearly gaining ground, it hasn't quite crossed over yet.

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%28Kiev+-+chicken+Kiev%29%2CKyiv&year_start=1970&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true>

That said, the gap is quite similar to that between Bombay and Mumbai or Calcutta and Kolkata. By contrast, Beijing surpassed Peking in edited English text by about 1980.

-GAWollman
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