Quote Originally Posted by adoc
Quote Originally Posted by TATY

7,000,000+ for В Украине
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa ... 5%22&meta=

That includes the US Embassey in Kiev

3,000,000+ for На Украине
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa ... 5%22&meta=
What do I care for google? It's my language. Try and google "behavior-behaviour" and "centre-center". Why don't you use behavior from this moment on, since it is cited more often and therefore is the only "correct" spelling. Try how many times "where are you at?" is used, it qualifies for a new rule already. The other places joined later? How is this critical if we are talking about languages and rules? If you insist that this is a grammar rule, I have just proven it isn't. And if it isn't, then this argument has no grammatical basis, only political. I am not going to use the tongue-breaker "В Украине" just to please young immature aficionados of some dumb inconsequential political wave (I am not referring to you, btw, I am just surprized that you of all people can't look at this objectively) or other type of people who would agree with anything the moment they are confronted by someone with balls or someone who is smug enough. I grew up with "На Украине" and that's how I am going to say it in the future. If someone says differently, well, I am not losing my sleep over this.
I hope you did't mean to say that "behaviour" is THE correct spelling, did you? And if you did not, why would you bother with what other people write? Would you suggest anyone to put that "u" back in "behavior", too?

I personally use "na" in speech and in places like this one, since that's what I got accustomed to. I'd probably use "v" in more serious writing.

And out of what I've seen on the Internet so far, it seems that a lot of the "na" afficionados have a political basis for it as well, it's just that they often try to pretend that it is not there.