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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 4467282, member: 13874&quot;]AJ, that was <i>a yoke</i> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> I also linked Kyiv to a Wikipedia entry in my post with similar spelling info.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Funny sidebar</i>: My late husband Richard&#039;s paternal grandfather was born in (then) Kiev. He emigrated as a young man to the U.S. some years before 1900. He had a long name with many syllables, hard to translate into any semblance of English. As it happened, he didn&#039;t need to. </p><p><br /></p><p>On arrival at Ellis Island he was asked by Immigration what his name was. He pretended to misunderstand the question as having been asked from where he came. </p><p><br /></p><p>His port of departure from Europe was Bremen in then (old) Germany. He replied: BREMEN. With a ie-sound on the first E. The immigration clerk wrote down his name as BRYMAN. </p><p><br /></p><p>From then on he was known as Jacob Bryman. He had received a new American name on arrival in the U.S. that he didn&#039;t have to pay for so he liked it. Which is why I, down the line three generations, bear his name courtesy my American husband. </p><p><br /></p><p>I really like the pretty little lamp and hope it was made in Kiev/Kyiv![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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