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[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Why are there so many articles that drop the second Y from his name? It's Zelenskyy. I haven't seen an article on Lemmy in the past couple weeks that spelled his name right.

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 102 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

His name is spelled Зеленський. Any conversion to English letters requires following a method of romanising Cyrillic letters. The most common method, which admittedly is used in Russia, is to represent the ий with just a single Y, but in Ukraine I believe it's more common to use two.

Nevertheless, people don't always use the same system, just as Chinese 北京 "Beijing" used to be written as Peking, due to the Romanisation system of the time.

With the current political climate, it's probably best to use the double Y spelling.

[-] Keineanung@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Thanks for that breakdown. Very informative.

[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 days ago

I regret to inform you that my mind has been blown on this day.

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

The literal translation would be Zelenskiy (he writes his own surname this way) but for English speakers it doesn't add any value to add an extra letter

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 days ago

I think the I is a Russia thing I think the doubles y is Ukrainian

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