Do you pronounce Celt "Selt" or "Kelt"

**Newsboy** · 12-08-2018, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by Graham

It's Keltic.

Yep

**Anglojew** · 12-08-2018, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by StevenTylerAerosmith

its not though... "kelt" is a creation of celtic nationalists

all other latin derived ce- words are pronounced with the s sound

Great. I'll stick to Celt then.

**Graham** · 12-08-2018, 10:29 AM

In Britain all the experts and historians use a hard k and as a culture people use a hard K. For some reason people use a soft c for the football side. The C is always a hard sound in Gaelic or Welsh for example ceilidh is prounced kay-lay. BUt many words in English use the soft c. Maybe both ways can be fine.

found this on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_C

The ⟨c⟩ in the words Celt and Celtic was traditionally soft but since the late 19th century the hard pronunciation has also been recognized in conscious imitation of the classical Latin pronunciation of Celtae, see Pronunciation of Celtic. Welsh and Gaelic loanwords in English which retain their native spelling, such as ceilidh, cistvaen (alternatively spelled ⟨kistvaen⟩) or Cymric are also pronounced hard. The classic Latin language had no letter K, so all Cs are pronounced hard.

**The Blade** · 01-10-2019, 08:19 PM

In Bulgaria we say Kelt and Kelti is the plural.
With a hard K.

**Tommie** · 01-10-2019, 08:23 PM

In Romanian - "Chelt".

**Vožd** · 01-10-2019, 08:25 PM

Celt as people = Kelt
Celtic F.C. = Seltik

**~~Kivan~~** · 01-10-2019, 08:31 PM

English and Turkish: K.
Portuguese: C.

**Mingle** · 01-10-2019, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by Graham

In Britain all the experts and historians use a hard k and as a culture people use a hard K. For some reason people use a soft c for the football side. The C is always a hard sound in Gaelic or Welsh for example ceilidh is prounced kay-lay. BUt many words in English use the soft c. Maybe both ways can be fine.

found this on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_C

The letter C is almost always supposed to be pronounced like a /k/. The only reason it isn't is because of French influence on English during the Middle Ages.