Talk:Nicolai Golovanov
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Who created this page with a "c" instead of a "k". The name Николай (Nikolay) is clearly spelled with a "k". A five year old can see that. When editing text, I can understand slips, personal preferences, and ignorance. But creating a page, to which many others will be linked? C'mon people, do your homework! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivan Velikii (talk • contribs) 22:00, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Ivan. Before pouring too much scorn on the intelligence of your fellow Wikipedians, you might reflect that the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets are two separate scripts. So your statement that the name Николай (Nikolay) is clearly spelled with a "k" is literally incorrect: it's clearly spelled with a "к", but a Cyrillic "к" is not the same thing as a Roman "k". In fact, some words spelled with a Cyrillic "к" are usually spelled with a "c" in English -- Moscow being one prominent example, Nicholas II of Russia being another, the composer Alexander Scriabin -- I could go on. Just to make things even more interesting, there are actually more Google hits for Nicolai Golovanov than for Nikolai Golovanov. So perhaps you should do your homework: in any case, please lay off the personal attacks. Cheers. Grover cleveland 18:36, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
