Say it both ways out loud and tell me what one sounds better.
Plap37
Because that used to be the common pronunciation of “Celtic”. Its the same thing with Celtic FC in the Scottish Premier League.
BostonKarlMarx
the team is older than the repronounciation
Medium_Ad_7683
The Boston sell ticks
Trilogie00
Not about to walk around calling my team the Keltics.
gagakaba
They sell ticks cause they Celtics.
Tatum-Better
As a guy who lives in Ireland it’s very weird to not say Keltic. Now people here look at me weird cus I accidentally pronounce celtic the celtics way
Jayson_n_th_Rgonauts
Because they sell tix
wujiyo
Celebration isn’t kelebration. Words starting with Ce are all pronounced with a soft C.
BoringButUniqueUser
Yea and why do we call worcester worcester and not warchester
Aggressive-Fish5263
Because fuck you, that’s why. Go green ☘️
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Snarktoberfest
Bruh. Never drop the hard C.
BlazeGawd7
Cuz this is America
CEREALCOUNTSASCOOKIN
Same reason we pronounce Worcester Worcester.
ForbesBottom500
I posted this as a reply below, but wanted to add this to OP’s thread, cuz I love etymology and I love the Boston Celtics: What about “cembalo” or “cello”? 🇮🇹🤌🤌. Or “cephalopod”? If you’re a man of culture, you know that “sef” would be the wrong way to start that very very Greek word 🇬🇷. We can thank the stinkin’ French 🏳️🇫🇷🏳️🤢 for softening the leading C in the English language, that was a 9th-12th century development as the world shifted from Latin. Gaelic speakers were largely isolated from this phenomena. But I do like that we started pronouncing “V” instead of “W” around then. “Weni Widi Wici” doesn’t hit the same. So it IS weird that “Celtic” became “sell-tik” and not “kell-tik” , but mostly cuz Irish doesn’t use soft C’s… Why? There’s no K in Gaelic or Welch 🇮🇪 “We have gotten to a state of consciousness in English now where we try to pronounce words and names from other languages the way that they would have us pronounce them” -James Harbeck, linguist and author
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We can’t say anything right in this region tbf
You can if you’d like.
Say it both ways out loud and tell me what one sounds better.
Because that used to be the common pronunciation of “Celtic”. Its the same thing with Celtic FC in the Scottish Premier League.
the team is older than the repronounciation
The Boston sell ticks
Not about to walk around calling my team the Keltics.
They sell ticks cause they Celtics.
As a guy who lives in Ireland it’s very weird to not say Keltic. Now people here look at me weird cus I accidentally pronounce celtic the celtics way
Because they sell tix
Celebration isn’t kelebration. Words starting with Ce are all pronounced with a soft C.
Yea and why do we call worcester worcester and not warchester
Because fuck you, that’s why. Go green ☘️
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Bruh. Never drop the hard C.
Cuz this is America
Same reason we pronounce Worcester Worcester.
I posted this as a reply below, but wanted to add this to OP’s thread, cuz I love etymology and I love the Boston Celtics:
What about “cembalo” or “cello”? 🇮🇹🤌🤌. Or “cephalopod”? If you’re a man of culture, you know that “sef” would be the wrong way to start that very very Greek word 🇬🇷.
We can thank the stinkin’ French 🏳️🇫🇷🏳️🤢 for softening the leading C in the English language, that was a 9th-12th century development as the world shifted from Latin. Gaelic speakers were largely isolated from this phenomena. But I do like that we started pronouncing “V” instead of “W” around then. “Weni Widi Wici” doesn’t hit the same.
So it IS weird that “Celtic” became “sell-tik” and not “kell-tik” , but mostly cuz Irish doesn’t use soft C’s… Why? There’s no K in Gaelic or Welch 🇮🇪
“We have gotten to a state of consciousness in English now where we try to pronounce words and names from other languages the way that they would have us pronounce them” -James Harbeck, linguist and author