Top Document: Irish FAQ: Miscellaneous [8/10] Previous Document: 13) What are travellers? Next Document: 15) What's the difference between clover and shamrock? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge The "c" at the start of "celtic" can be pronounced soft, like an "s", or hard, like a "k". The most common convention is to always pronounce it with a hard "c" ("keltic") except when using it as a proper noun (e.g. Celtic Football Club, Boston Celtics, The Anglo-Celt newspaper). In Irish, "c" is always pronounced hard, like the letter "k" which is never used in Irish words. The Greeks were the first to write about the Celts, using the word "Keltoi", which suggests that the hard sound is also historically accurate. { Thanks for clarification to Michael Ruddy. } User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: Irish FAQ: Miscellaneous [8/10] Previous Document: 13) What are travellers? Next Document: 15) What's the difference between clover and shamrock? Part00 - Part01 - Part02 - Part03 - Part04 - Part05 - Part06 - Part07 - Part08 - Part09 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: irish-faq@pobox.com (Irish FAQ Maintainer)
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