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How come they referred to themselves as Celts-prounounced-like-Selts? I thought on ly American basketball fans call the team Celts-prounounced-like-Selts.

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Celtic FC is a scottish club is as well symbolized with the Shamrock on their crest and the Celtic irish cross, mostly associated with the ireland and the gaelic people north of the british isles, in Gaelic, which is spoken throughout ireland's north the letter C is pronounced as K. Therefore some, including irish americans pronounce Celtic as Keltic.

Celtic was founded by an Irish priest i believe. That should connect the dots.

Another Example is the irish name Ciaran pronounced as Kee-ren. Spelled Kieran in English.

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Arabia, that's exactly my point. Reread my query. Why are characters from the UK pronouncing "Celt" as "Selt"?

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are you asking with the assumption that the pronounciation as "seltik" wrong? If that's you're case it's a difficult question with no answer.

However. Most of the world pronounces Celtic as Seltik. it's common to use the the Irish Keltik instead if you are referring to Irish heritage or something in the Irish culture.

However to say Seltik isn't wrong but the right way. the use of Keltik along with Seltik started with when the English started to accept Keltik as a correct word as well. I'm aware that before the 1970s the pronouncing of Celtic as Keltik was disapproved of. In the 1970s many books were written on the Irish Gaelic language and that's when the use of Keltik began to spread.

As for Celtic FC it was founded in 1887, and that's critical because just soon after tor around then he Irish language had a revival.

to bear in mind grammar, in Gaelic k makes more sense to say than S. this is due to vowel harmony as well and it would clash hence if you are familiar with irish accent that Seltik in Irish would probabky sound Sheltich. a familiar clash would be the Liverpool accent In English a city with many Irish.

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Beacuse Glasgow Celtic is pronounced seltic, not keltic. End of story. The keltic pronounciation is more common in cultural references, but both can be considered correct.

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Thanks for your explanation, GMB.

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