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Re:'The Celts: A Modern History' by Ian Stewart Review by DonaldFisk on Friday March 21, 2025 @01:04PM (#43438221)
In English Celt is generally pronounced kelt nowadays. Celtic is always pronounced seltik when referring to sports teams (e.g. Celtic Football Club), but keltik otherwise, e.g. Celtic languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts

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Re:'The Celts: A Modern History' by Ian Stewart Review by jimnotgym on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:01PM (#43440218)
How the Anglo Saxon English pronounce it is not really the point. In Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the Celtic fringe, we call ourselves Kelts... the football club is a fun anomaly! That is definitely Seltic
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Re:'The Celts: A Modern History' by Ian Stewart Review by caper2025 on Friday March 21, 2025 @01:46PM (#43438844)
Resident of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (trans. New Scotland) here. In somewhat of an acknowledgment of this issue, we've used "Keltic". See for e.g. Keltic Lodge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keltic_Lodge

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Re:'The Celts: A Modern History' by Ian Stewart Review by timeon on Friday March 21, 2025 @06:23PM (#43441378)
> Celtic Football Club

Interesting, there are to "C"s here but they aren't same letter...

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