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by drook
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7/20/20 7:51:22 AM
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New My daughter was just asking the other day ...
"Why are the Boston Celtics pronounced 'seltics' and not 'keltics'?" and I didn't have any answer. Do you?
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Drew
Post #435,263
by pwhysall
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7/20/20 9:08:53 AM
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New Glasgow Celtic Football Club is also pronounced that way.
Post #435,265
by Andrew Grygus
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7/20/20 11:31:27 AM
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New Nobody does - it just happened, and it can't be fixed now.
Probably, the folks who founded, and those that followed the team, just had no idea how to pronounce it. Irish Americans probably didn't know either - they were Irish, not Celtic. This uppity educated stuff came later (it did come, didn't it?).
     Identity Crisis! - (Andrew Grygus) - (20) - July 19, 2020, 02:50:52 PM EDT
         !! ... back to Square one, as supports my thesis that.. - (Ashton) - July 19, 2020, 03:49:33 PM EDT
         A celt by any other name... - (static) - (1) - July 20, 2020, 06:01:24 AM EDT
             Yes, their history will certainly remain intact. - (Andrew Grygus) - July 20, 2020, 11:42:03 AM EDT
         My daughter was just asking the other day ... - (drook) - (2) - July 20, 2020, 07:51:22 AM EDT
             Glasgow Celtic Football Club is also pronounced that way. -NT - (pwhysall) - July 20, 2020, 09:08:53 AM EDT
             Nobody does - it just happened, and it can't be fixed now. - (Andrew Grygus) - July 20, 2020, 11:31:27 AM EDT
         Re: "from above the Black Sea" - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - July 20, 2020, 05:51:49 PM EDT
             Succinctly the best l o n g - (useful!) historical summary seen in ..years :-) -NT - (Ashton) - July 20, 2020, 08:30:56 PM EDT
         re your Title: Menace has catalyzed countless refurbs-of-old whine (in same old bottles) - (Ashton) - July 21, 2020, 12:47:56 AM EDT
         Picts, everyone knows that -NT - (boxley) - (10) - July 21, 2020, 02:47:31 PM EDT
             Picts or GTFO -NT - (drook) - (3) - July 21, 2020, 03:42:42 PM EDT
                 Re: Picts or GTFO - (boxley) - (2) - July 21, 2020, 04:01:22 PM EDT
                     Excellent -NT - (drook) - July 21, 2020, 04:21:28 PM EDT
                     Ain't that a Peach of "a pair" ?! -NT - (Ashton) - July 22, 2020, 02:36:04 PM EDT
             The Picts were restricted to parts of Scotland. - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - July 21, 2020, 05:32:40 PM EDT
                 They didn't become pictsies? :-D - (static) - (3) - July 22, 2020, 12:02:30 AM EDT
                     {Well ..they were dePicted that way} ;^> -NT - (Ashton) - July 22, 2020, 02:40:39 PM EDT
                     Actually, they got Pixtelated until unrecognizable. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - July 23, 2020, 10:37:37 PM EDT
                     My favorite pictsie has always been Tinker Bell. -NT - (mmoffitt) - July 24, 2020, 08:02:05 AM EDT
                 And if you would like to hear what Pink Floyd thought picts sounded like - (crazy) - July 24, 2020, 01:57:04 PM EDT

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