[tz] Fwd: Timezone issue

[Paul Eggert]

On 2/3/21 4:53 AM, Yaroslav Bilko wrote:
> Found the nice video with this topic:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1f6GUvG5Y
> Girl's pronunciation is accurate with great comments for English speakers.

Thanks for the link. From that video and its comments it appears that 
there's not a consensus about whether to pronounce Kyiv's trailing "v" 
as an English "f", or an English "w". The professor uses "f", but a 
couple of commenters (and Wikipedia) use "w". Perhaps to a Ukrainian 
speaker this is no big deal, but in English it matters.

For what it's worth, Wikipedia gives [ˈkɪjiu̯] as the IPA spelling of the 
pronunciation, and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Ukrainian> 
says that an English approximation to that trailing [u̯] is the "w" in 
the English word "tow".