Keltic?
Does anyone care that everyone always pronounces Celtic wrong? Or is it that people just don't know how it's supposed to be said?
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Actually even in Celtic parts of the world they pronounce it Keltic so they don't get the people and sports teams confused. Like Celtic F.C. in Scotland is pronounced Keltic F.C.
shareYeah i know this is long since dead but every Celtic Fan I know pronounces the football (soccer) team...Celtic & not Keltic. That harsh K sound is only from cetain parts of the city who have a thick accent (by thick i mean dense not stupid!)
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mate your talking mince, nobody calls celtic fc 'Keltic'
shareThis is my understanding.
When discussing the basketball team, it's Celtic.
When discussing anything else, it's Keltic.
I heard that Brother Walfrid who founded Celtic FC could not pronounce Keltic and it came out as Celtic and just stuck. why the celtics are pronounced that way i dont know maybe people in Boston MA have a speech impediment
shareSee here what is the difference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtics#Pronounced_.2Fkelt.28ik.29.2F
Pronouncing the team (the Celtic football team anyway) with a K would kind of denote that it was made up of celtic peoples, but there's not much celtic about the team. Pronouncing it with a C (which it has been since it's founding more than a century ago) is most likely an anglicanisation(sp?)
Occasionaly even the word celt is not pronounced with a k, even in Scotland and Ireland.
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground, try this sig with spinach!
Keltic is actually the correct way to say the word.
But everyone pronounces the basketball team "seltic". It's just another Americanism.
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At Doc Brown: The football team from Glasgow is pronounced Selltic and with a large Irish population Boston called their team Selltics.
Brother Walfrid was going to call the football team Glasgow Hibernian but because of Hibernian in Edinburgh he went for something more original so he called the Glasgow team Selltic after Scotland's Kelltic connection.
All variation of the word Celtic have been spelt phonetically in their context.