why is celtic pronounced keltic?

[rae121452]

i mean, you don't pronounce celery as kelery, do you? is this some kind of archaic shit nobody cares about in the first place? i hate english. let's go back to elizabethan spelling when there was no accepted rule.

 

[Jada59]

I once asked this and somebody told me but I can't remember the answer now.

 

[sigh]

Boston basketball fans pronounce it otherwise. Maybe they don't like kelery either.

And yeah, English sucks. There really is no need for both a "hard" C and a "soft" one. Actually, since we already have K and S, we really don't need C at all.

But then, it's the weirdness of English that makes it so cool to read and write. We shamelessly stole words from everyone else so we have almost endless ways to express ourselves. It really is a lovely language in that regard.

 

[stickygirl]

By making pronunciations unpredictable and based in "history" we find it easier to detect foreigners, like Germans with perfect diction but who might say blueBOTtle not BLUEbottle which breaks some rule in Oxford-speak. We then arrest them and send them back to EU land.

If it helps I prefer the way you guys spell plow instead of plough but I prefer fart to Trump.

 

[doowdniw]

Boston basketball fans pronounce it otherwise. Maybe they don't like kelery either.

And yeah, English sucks. There really is no need for both a "hard" C and a "soft" one. Actually, since we already have K and S, we really don't need C at all.

But then, it's the weirdness of English that makes it so cool to read and write. We shamelessly stole words from everyone else so we have almost endless ways to express ourselves. It really is a lovely language in that regard.

Without C, kids would have to learn their spelling at shool.

 

[JJA122]

C was always a hard "k" in ancient times.
K was actually only used in Roman Latin when the word was borrowed from Greek.

Then the French decided to pronounce their C as an "s" when it followed an E or an I.
Thus Cafe, Cent, and Cindy.

But Celtic languages use C as a hard "k" everywhere.

 

[DeYaKen]

i mean, you don't pronounce celery as kelery, do you? is this some kind of archaic shit nobody cares about in the first place? i hate english. let's go back to elizabethan spelling when there was no accepted rule.

Try telling a Glasgow Celtic supporter that it should be pronounced Keltic They'd think you were mad or American.
That's what's great about English. You might as well ask why Leicester is pronounced 'Lester'

 

[oggbashan]

Try telling a Glasgow Celtic supporter that it should be pronounced Keltic They'd think you were mad or American.
That's what's great about English. You might as well ask why Leicester is pronounced 'Lester'

Or why Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley.

And people in Shrewsbury can't decide which is the correct way to say the town's name.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-33364359

 

[lovelyhurler]

As an Irish man, over here is Celtic - with a C - as in CELLtic.
So we would be inclined to say Boston cell-tics.
Yet, when we refer to ancient Celtic culture. we call it Ketlic

 

[oggbashan]

The Romans got it wrong.

The island of Britain was occupied by Prythons, not Britons.

We should have been Pritannia.

 

[Liar]

i mean, you don't pronounce celery as kelery, do you? is this some kind of archaic shit nobody cares about in the first place? i hate english. let's go back to elizabethan spelling when there was no accepted rule.

How do you pronounce cunt?

 

[rae121452]

How do you pronounce cunt?

have you been watching 'boys in the band'? there's a line in it about that.

 

[colddiesel]

C was always a hard "k" in ancient times.
K was actually only used in Roman Latin when the word was borrowed from Greek.

Then the French decided to pronounce their C as an "s" when it followed an E or an I.
Thus Cafe, Cent, and Cindy.

But Celtic languages use C as a hard "k" everywhere.

Precise, accurate and succinct - but how do you say those words, especially the last?

 

[Tim2run]

kar
kunt
okkasion
(actually, why so much doubling up? okasion. We don't say Okklahoma or Okkland)

selery
selibate
selebration
(or would that be confused with the holiday sellebrations?)

Probably too late to change now.

 

[HisArpy]

I wanna know why the W is silent in Sword but not in Sward.

 

[Adre]

Without the hard c your main squeeze could end up sucking your sock.

 

[Liar]

have you been watching 'boys in the band'? there's a line in it about that.

Maybe I should. Sounds like my kind of show.

 

[butters]

kar
kunt
okkasion
(actually, why so much doubling up? okasion. We don't say Okklahoma or Okkland)

selery
selibate
selebration
(or would that be confused with the holiday sellebrations?)

Probably too late to change now.

because it's a soft o(kk) sound like you'd say 'rock' rather than Oh as in oak

 

[butters]

and what kind of problems would we run into if we asked about 'men who like sook-ing'?

 

[butters]

and--holy hell--can you imagine christmas?

carnivore?
carpel tunnel?
capriciousness
country
county
curb
claire
carmen miranda
cookies??????????

 

[ag2507]

Or why Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley.

And people in Shrewsbury can't decide which is the correct way to say the town's name.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-33364359

Try living in Bicester...

A

 

[ag2507]

It all depends on the language the word is derived from BUT if you try to trace some of the words back to their interim spellings you might get quite a shock. (and some of it is regional) And there are odd ones - yes is derived from aye, no fro nay, ta (brits are more used to this,) tak.

 

[domroger]

Try living in Bicester...

A

How about Nempnett Thrubwell Somerset and Piddletrentide Dorset .

 

[oggbashan]

How about Nempnett Thrubwell Somerset and Piddletrentide Dorset .

Don't knock the towns on the river Piddle. They make good beer.

https://piddlebrewery.co.uk/

https://www.piddlebrewery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/images/slide2.png

 

[silver gurl]

I am from Boston and it’s pronounced cel(l) tic