Comments on: Celtic: /sel tik/ or /kel tik/?

By: kevin gallagher

kevin gallagher — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:09:40 +0000

the “english” alphabet has 3 letters where 2 should make do. C K and S. K is not in the latin alphabet, it’s a greek letter. C is the latin K. however, in modern english c followed by e is always prounced soft.

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:32:06 +0000

Well i really think it should be a “K” sound. I speak a Celtic language (Irish) and in these languages C ALWAYS makes a K sound. There is no K in Irish . Seltic for the football team has come out of fans not knowing…

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:20:02 +0000

It’s French from Latin. That makes it a soft c. The hard k version is pretentious and affected, thus favored in academia.

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:13:22 +0000

I use the soft C for football teams (e.g. Celtic of Glasgow in the Scottish Premier League) and the hard C for historical references to the Celtic people and culture.

By: Maeve

Maeve — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:25:03 +0000

Deborah, The spelling of Caesar is mentioned in one of my posts, but so far not the derivation. I'll get right on it.