Soccer Q: How is "Celtic" pronounced?

Factual Questions
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So, I am watching the Sweden - Nigeria game right now. One of the Swedish players apparently plays for Celtic (Rangers?), but the American announcer keeps on pronouncing Celtic with a soft C (like Boston Celtics). Am I crazy or shouldn’t it be a hard C, like Cacoon?

Go U.S.A.!

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Soft C. “Seltic”.

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Glasgow Celtic
Glasgow Rangers.

Both Scottish, but that’s where the similarity ends.
Two VERY different teams, and very bitter rivals.

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Blainer, you’re lucky you don’t have to wear a dress.

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Thanks for the quick replies . . . I stand corrected.

Crusoe: Good luck this afternoon (morning, here)!

Aro: Shame on me. I thought that I had heard “Celtic Rangers” before. Good luck on Tuesday!

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However, the Anthropological term is pronounced “Kel-tic” with a hard “C”.

“Celtic Rangers” hee hee hee.

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Lots of Kelts have played for Seltic.

As for Rangers well lots of Ku… :wink:

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Kult members?

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Kunning funsters?

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C’mon, somebody do the Richard Burton quote…

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I really like that Burton quote but I’m also a tease :wink:

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You did it in this thread: Celtic or Celtic?.

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Celtic Rangers?? Blainer, if you stick a ’ / ’ in there, and it’ll make more sense:

“I’m going to the Celtic/Rangers game this weekend. Can’t wait to see the Rangers get clobbered”…

Ta daaa!

(Go Celtic!)

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Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary lists both “kel-tik” and “sel-tik” with the hard “c” first.

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If it’s teams, soft C.

Otherwise, if you’re talking about the Celtic race and culture, hard C.

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I would give the Celtics the edge if they were playing on wood, but the Rangers on ice.

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I was always told the “Kelts” are a poeple, “Selts” are a team. I always stick with that usage:

"K"eltic Art

Boston "S"eltics

YMMV - B

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Growing up in the west of Scotland, I was led to understand by school teachers that the purpose of the distinction in pronounciation was to allow Scots Protestants (like ourselves) to admit to being Celtic (hard C) without being taken to be supporters of Celtic (soft C). Whether there was an equivalent rationalisation amongst Catholics I don’t know. I suspect that the difference actually has more to do with historical shifts in the pronounciation of Latin, c.f. Kaiser and Caeser.

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Soft C. Dundee United are a far superior team though.

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The word Celtic (as in old english) is pronounced “Keltic”

The scotish soccer team is pronounced “Seltic”
And…

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