When I worked at Border’s books and music I had a customer come up to me and ask where the Seltic music was, I’d never heard of Seltic music and asked her what kind of music that was and she told me, “You know, traditional Scots and Irish music,” and I said, oh, you mean the Celtic music (pronounced with a hard C). “No, it’s pronounced Seltic, like the basketball team.” “No, it’s pronounced Celtic, with a hard C, I have a friend who’s Scots Irish to his soul and he’d be flabergasted if I pronounced it like the basketball team.” “Then why is the basketball team called the Seltics instead of the Celtics?” “I don’t know, someone who didn’t know how it was pronounced got it wrong and it caught on after that.”
When I worked at Border’s books and music I had a customer come up to me and ask where the Seltic music was, I’d never heard of Seltic music and asked her what kind of music that was and she told me, “You know, traditional Scots and Irish music,” and I said, oh, you mean the Celtic music (pronounced with a hard C). “No, it’s pronounced Seltic, like the basketball team.” “No, it’s pronounced Celtic, with a hard C, I have a friend who’s Scots Irish to his soul and he’d be flabergasted if I pronounced it like the basketball team.” “Then why is the basketball team called the Seltics instead of the Celtics?” “I don’t know, someone who didn’t know how it was pronounced got it wrong and it caught on after that.”