Clockworkmike
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Medieval Sychophancy
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Aw man, just when I thought we could be friends
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
Lol my apologies for my bad tasteAw man, just when I thought we could be friends
I did almost get my ass kicked in Liverpool about 14 years ago on a trip over there for wearing a MUFC zip up jacket when I stepped off a train at Lime Street. Typical stupid American I am, I didn't realize the extent of the bad blood between the two, but oh some guy outside of the Burger King in the station made it abundantly clear on the mistake I made. I think it was when he yelled "Oi!!! What the F@#$ is THAT you're wearing?!?!" As I quickly shuffled down the stairs to the closest street I could find lmao
CoyotesGator
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SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
Rule #1 while visiting Europe:
Never wear sports attire unless you do a lot of research first. Wear a Motörhead shirt instead. You’ll have a good time with everyone you meet.
Rule #2:
See Rule #1
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
Lol I did wear a lot of Iron Maiden, Blue Oyster Cult, Soilwork, In Flames shirts over there. Most were cool with me, especially wearing Maiden as an old London Metalhead sporting a Saxon shirt walked up and we complimented each other.
Part of me thinks I sorta knew wearing that would've caused a ruckus but I'm stupid and did it anyways. Hell I was 25 and didn't give 2 $hits about anything lol
OP
Yeah that could've ended badly. You know what those Scousers are like
If you really wanted to make your trip more exciting you could have come to Glasgow wearing a Celtic or Rangers top then picked a pub at random. Let's call it Sectarian Chicken
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
I hope you guys pronounce Celtics correctly. When I saw the Dead Kennedys a while back, Skip Greer (an Irishman), said in his banter "Boston, Why do you say Sell-ticks?" "I'm Irish, you're supposed to be Irish. It's pronounced Kell-ticks!"Yeah that could've ended badly. You know what those Scousers are like
If you really wanted to make your trip more exciting you could have come to Glasgow wearing a Celtic or Rangers top then picked a pub at random. Let's call it Sectarian Chicken
That's an interesting question, to which I have no answer.
I'm originally from northern Illinois. Every time I heard the word, "Celtic," it was pronounced, "Sell - tick." When I first heard the pronunciation, "Kell - tick", I thought it was either a mispronunciation or was referring to something else.
It's interesting how these things change.
mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
Probably an Anglican bastardization or mispronounciation of the word led to the soft C sound we often hear today, as we have with many words.
From wiki:
The first recorded use of the name 'Celts' – as Κελτοί (Keltoi) in Ancient Greek – was by Greek geographer Hecataeus of Miletus in 517 BC,[24] when writing about a people living near Massilia (modern Marseille), southern Gaul.[25] In the fifth century BC, Herodotus referred to Keltoi living around the source of the Danube and in the far west of Europe.[26]
Further down the page, we find this:
For at least 1,000 years the name Celt was not used at all, and nobody called themselves Celts or 'Celtic, until from about 1700, after the word Celtic was rediscovered in classical texts, it was applied for the first time to the distinctive culture, history, traditions, language of the modern Celtic nations – Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall Brittany and the Isle of Man.
...interesting
From wiki:
The first recorded use of the name 'Celts' – as Κελτοί (Keltoi) in Ancient Greek – was by Greek geographer Hecataeus of Miletus in 517 BC,[24] when writing about a people living near Massilia (modern Marseille), southern Gaul.[25] In the fifth century BC, Herodotus referred to Keltoi living around the source of the Danube and in the far west of Europe.[26]
Further down the page, we find this:
For at least 1,000 years the name Celt was not used at all, and nobody called themselves Celts or 'Celtic, until from about 1700, after the word Celtic was rediscovered in classical texts, it was applied for the first time to the distinctive culture, history, traditions, language of the modern Celtic nations – Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall Brittany and the Isle of Man.
...interesting
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
Good point on the Celtic language bleeding over into others, specifically Welsh. It's basically an amalgamation of that, Breton, Cornish and some pieces of old Latin. Weirdly though, while you could speak Welsh somewhat to someone who speaks Celtic, it would be hard to carry a full on conversation and you would have an even harder time reading text between the two, due to the Celtic language having 18 letters and Welsh having 29.
This is even weirder considering there's only a 121 miles between the two lands. Lots of breakdowns in the language barrier overtime due to invading forces from the Eastern countries of France and Italy and it nearly being erased by English conquests. Ironically, while the Old English language was broken a bit from Nordic and Germanic invaders, that didn't pour over into Scotland and Wales as much due to them not spending much time attacking those lands
OP
In general usage over here it's pronounced Keltic except when referring to the football team which is pronounced Glasgow Seltic.
I'm guessing the Boston Celtics might have took their lead from that