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From: pardoej@lonnds.ml.com (Julian Pardoe LADS LDN X1428)
Subject: Re: margarine
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Organization: Merrill Lynch Europe
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:30:02 GMT
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In article <52gkhe$pkr@mips.pfalz.de>, naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
-->cornell3@ix.netcom.com(Cornell Kimball) writes:
-->
-->> Avi Jacobson <avi_jaco@netvision.net.il> writes:
-->> 
-->> >>      "Soccer" is the only common word like this -- where "c" before an
-->> >> "e/i/y" is pronounced like an "k" -- but there are a few others if you
-->> >> count very rarely used words, things like "zincify."

What is the past of "to arc"?  "Arced" -- yuck!  "Arcked" -- yuck!
"Arcqued" -- hmm!   "Arc'ed" -- hmm!  They are all bad!

-->> > "Celtic" ['kEl tIk] is fairly common, I would have thought.
-->
-->So, for all the UEFA Cup aficionados, how is the "celtic" in
-->"Celtic Glasgow" (the soccer team) pronounced?
-->Any Scot here who could give an authoritative answer?

I'm no Scot but (as any fule no) it's /'sEl tIk/.

-- jP --


