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Attempting to set the record straight. How should the family name of Ukraine’s President be spelled?

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  • Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A.

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Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, became a globally recognized persona since 2019, even more so now as a result of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. Despite that fame and recognition, it is not uncommon to observe some variations in the spelling of the President’s family name, Zelenskyy, either as Zelenskyi, Zelenskiy, Zelensky, or Zelenski, even in mainstream English media and/or English academic literature. The apparent reason for this variation is the lack of Latinization of the name from the Ukrainian form and/or the recognition of the double-consonant “yy” in English. As equally as the public expects unbiased and balanced news – an unlikely phenomenon during a war – so too should news outlets pay attention to small, but important details, such as the accurate spelling of publicly highly visible personalities, such as President Zelenskyy. This paper serves to provide a culturally accurate version of the representation of the family name of the current President of Ukraine, with the hope that it may be used in a more standardized manner in news and in academic literature.

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  • Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A., 2023. "Attempting to set the record straight. How should the family name of Ukraine’s President be spelled?," SocArXiv xug4m, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:xug4m
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/xug4m
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