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From: comm@zeus.bris.ac.uk (M. Murray)
Subject: Re: margarine
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 17:51:32 GMT
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Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.pfalz.de) wrote:
: 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."
: > >
: > > "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?

Firstly, it's Glasgow Celtic, though the Glasgow is usually omitted. I've 
noticed how the German media invent new names for British football clubs 
to conform with their own conventions, e.g. FC Liverpool. Reminds me of 
the joke about a British commentator describing how Borussia 
Moenchengladbach beat Borussia Dortmund "in the Borussia derby".
 
Secondly it's pronounced Seltick not Keltick. 

Though celtic as in language is more often keltick. 

-- 
Martin Murray :: School of Chemistry, Bristol University, BS8 1TS, England
Enough of a Scot to answer your question.
