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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
This why I am asking. I was there. I have spent time there. I ate chicken kiev there. You can't read it in a book.
In Boston, some people really do say "pahk de cah" with the ah sound like "can" for park the car, which most Americans say "park the car" but the above can also be read as the way some English say it, with the ah as "charge" but unvoiced "r".
We're not idiots here people, this is beyond wikipedia. We are asking how native Ukrainians, regardless of their history, ethnicity, linguistic descent, patrimony, or tribe, consider the standard way to say KYIV.
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Not just Boston. Massachusetts people have various accents but we don’t pronounce our r. Pahk the cah is normal! Winter is wintah.
I’m surrounded by people from Fall River and they usually use Bahstahn accents with Portuguese accents. You hear a mixture of accents and it’s confusing. I say Fall River but most pronounce it Fall Reeve. New Bedford is pronounced NewBeffa by most immigrants.
Worcester is mispronounced by almost everyone. Woostah is correct but you’ll hear
Werchester and Woresistah too.
This area has Indian names and cities and towns like Mattapoisett and Acushnet seem easy to pronounce but it’s comical to listen to people.
Kiev was said with one syllable by my Russian great-grandmother. Kyev was her way. Monday I see my Russian doctor with a thick accent and I’ll ask him his pronunciation of it. I think he’s from Belarus and my people are from Pinsk and Minsk.