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Thanks, Cliff.
(Claven, not Original)
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Keltic because that was what the teacher said it was.
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I've always said Keltic, because in Dutch we speak of the Kelts when talking about Celts.
Then I heard people use Seltic and I was like "what?" and they're like "yeah, it's the sports club" and I'm like "what?"
I always knew these sporting types were more muscle than brain (I say that to justify my lack of exercise, mostly), but why the hell can't they pronounce Celtic correctly? And that for people who use the word in their team name!
And I've always used either in the context of Celts, the people and their language, or in the context of Celtic Frost, the band[^]. Never in the context of sports 
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Sander Rossel wrote: why the hell can't they pronounce Celtic correctly?
They are pronouncing it correctly, just as I pronounce Ajax differently when it's the Greek hero and not the football club even though, there being no J in Greek, the latter is actually the more proper pronunciation.
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9082365 wrote: They are pronouncing it correctly
That's srazy talk!
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Sander Rossel wrote: That's srazy talk!
Now you're just being cilly! I prescribe a trip to Cirencester!
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/K/eltic - besides learning it like this in English class the German word is also pronounced (and written) with a hard K, so it feels doubly right.
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: the German word
Ah, but therein lies the problem.
The Celts were all over Europe and (predominantly) Northern UK, and even spread further East (i.e. into places further East than Russia, which is part of Europe*), so their language had more dialects than there are active languages, today.
* I had to add that clarification, because it appears that 98.37625% of Americans are unaware that Rusiia is, and always has been, part of Europe
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Mark_Wallace wrote: 98.37625% of Americans are unaware that Rusiia is, and always has been, part of Europe
Politically sure but geographically 3/4 of Russia is in Asia.
That's important when you're aiming an ICBM... 
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Ah, that's the thing. There were Asian parts of the USSR, but Russia itself is European.
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No, mother Russia herself is 3/4 Asian (geographically). Google it.
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heh. Google is American.
I've still got atlases given to me when I was a kid, which were published before the USSR existed. Russia wasn't the huge place it is now, since the dissolution of the USSR.
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As far as I know the Urals are used as the delineation between Europe and Asia.
West of Urals = Europe
East of Urals = Asia
Since the time of the first Tsars (1500's) Russia has extended well east of the Urals and by the mid-1600's all the way to the Pacific. Nearly all of the Soviet expansion was west and southwest
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That's a very US-ian viewpoint.
Unfortunately, there are no lines between Europe and Asia except the political ones, and try asking a Russian if he's Asian.
Mind you, try asking a non-Texan American which continent Mexico is on, and he'll probably get it wrong.
I'm absolute cr@p at geography, but the average American beats me hands down.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That's a very US-ian viewpoint.
I'm an American so that would be normal.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Unfortunately, there are no lines between Europe and Asia except the political ones
Again an uninformed response. Geologists and cartographers beg to differ with you.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Mind you, try asking a non-Texan American which continent Mexico is on, and he'll probably get it wrong.
I'm absolute cr@p at geography, but the average American beats me hands down.
I love when you paint your insults with such a broad brush. It makes you look silly and pathetic all at the same time. Why are you so anti-American?
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Sorry for the doble reply, but here[^]
It's a little country that took ownership of a big chunk of the world.
I can identify with that.
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Ummm... that's a REALLY bad map.
Lets try this[^] one.
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On a related note, founding Russia was probably the most stupid thing the Vikings[^] ever did. 
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There is nowhere further east than Russia, which extends to the 178th meridian, except a sliver of Alaska and a few Pacific islands. Pretty sure the Celts never made it to either. In any case I am aware of no evidence that the Celts as a recognisable people or culture ever made it further east than Turkey in the south and just over the border of Ukraine (which is not Russia, of course) in mainland Europe, so reliable sources or it didn't happen.
Any definitive statement about Russia being part of Europe is open to death by a thousand cuts depending entirely upon who you ask. In view of the antipathy between the Putin government and the European Union and the fact that almost none of its current possessions lie to the west of Turkey while the majority of its population lives to the east of the Urals and identifies as Eurasian or uniquely Russian (the so called third way) I would argue that Russia is in one of many periods where it is hardly European at all.
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If it's the football club: Seltik
If it's the people/language: Keltik
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OK, I've avoided reading any replies, so far, so tht I can give you the real answer, without getting carried away with taking the piss.
(0) "Seltic" is the race of people whom we call "Kelts", unless (1) (Yes, that's a confusing "unless", I know, but it's the English language, Guys, not C++)
(1) "Keltic" is the adjective (e.g. "a Keltic dagger", "the Keltic people").
(2) "Seltic" is the Glaswegian football team.
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I avoid pronouncing it altogether; I only write it and when I write it I write it thusly: Celtic!
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like Keltic. In dutch we use the K (de Kelten) and apart from a dubious American football team I always hear it pronounced with a K. 
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I pronounce it as Cheltic, since I'm Italian and "Ce" is always and invariably pronounced as "Che".
On the other hand in Italian "Che" is always pronounced "Ke"... languages, they always surprise me.
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