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Like Seltic?
Or like Keltic?
And why?
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Seltic because that's how the NBA Boston Celtics pronounce it and that's the only context I ever use it.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Yes!
You want the explanation? You can't handle the explanation!
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It's just the way it is. If you're talking about the football club from Glasgow it's the soft C. If you're talking about the predominant cultural influence on English Christianity in the time of Bede then it's the hard C. You don't think about it. It just comes naturally.
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That is precisely how it is. Apart from the football club though, I can't think of any other time it has a soft C. Predominantly, it has a hard C.
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I knew that, I just wanted some low level statistics among the developer community, and more interesting, why.
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So...
I mix it, depending on the content...
Normally I do with K, as my native language is Hungarian...however in connection of Celtic FC I'm used to S, as that' how it pronounced in TV...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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so, do you prefer the Ashkenazi or Sephardi pronunciation of Celt?
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Badly.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But why?
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Because I can.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If it's badly, then I'd say you can't actually?!?!? 
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I pronounced it Seltic all my life before knowing it was supposed to be Keltic because the C in Celtic in French is pronounced as an S. (and maybe indirectly with the NBA's Celtic pronunciation).
It is hard to change habits.
I'd rather be phishing!
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So, as you'd pronounce it, you live in Sanadia?
Weird.
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Well, no.
I should have been more precise in my explanation.
Ce is pronounced Se. same thing with Ci
Ca is pronounced Ka. same thing with Co, Cu,
Ça is pronounced Sa. (not Za)
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I'd rather be phishing!
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When I went to school many moons ago and started out learning English, one of the first rules my teacher taught me was the one about Cecilia's Bicycle. That is to say that C is pronunced as S before E, I and Y but as K before any other wovel (Whis is why Canada is pronounced Kanada, @Balboos ).
So Celtic OUGHT to be pronounced Seltic. But I REALLY don't like that. Celtic is connected to the Celts who as mentioned in Peter's wikipedia link[^] also can be written Kelts, and in that case of course pronounced accordingly.
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 13-Apr-16 2:36am.
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As spelling/pronunciation rules go, most of them being dogged with more exceptions than examples, Cecilia's Bicycle is pretty robust, mainly because it seems to have been applied with the heavy hand of rigidity against all logic by the Edinburgh mob that are mostly responsible for all the stupid rules of grammar and orthography that we now consider standard. There is, for example, no brief for pronouncing Greek rooted words like cephalopod and Cerberus with the soft c because it is a transliteration of kappa which is indisputably hard; and yet we do.
Obvious exceptions which somehow escaped 'correction' are cello (Italian root) and ceilidh (Gaelic). A fun afternoon might be spent finding others.
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I just thought it was another flaw in french - like stopping at sixty.
(or is that cixty?)
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I've always said seltic too - damn!
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Maximilien wrote: It is hard to change habits.
Surely you must do laundry at some point? 
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
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Maximilien wrote: It is hard to change habits.
I didn't know that you were a munk??? How many habits[^] are you allowed to have, and are there really rules for how often you have to change them? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Of course. The Rules of the Benedictine Order for example require ...
Quote: clothing is to be adequate and suited to the climate and locality, at the discretion of the abbot. It must be as plain and cheap as is consistent with due economy. Each monk is to have a change of clothes to allow for washing, and when travelling is to have clothes of better quality. Old clothes are to be given to the poor.
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I would say that the Keltic language gave birth to the football club Seltic.
However a quick Google suggests that it was once Keltic, became Seltic through common usage a long time ago and has become Keltic again in recent years through pretentious use.
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