• cobysev@lemmy.world
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    4 months 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.

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      4 months 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