Celtic (was: schedule --pronunciation)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:36 PM -0500 1/30/01, Baker, John wrote:
>         I've long wondered about the pronunciation of "celtic" with an
>initial k.  Why should "celtic" be pronounced differently from any other
>word anglicized from Latin?
>
>         Of course, regardless of the pronunciation, there was no
>justification for the basketball team's nouning of an adjective.  The Boston
>team should have been named the Celts.
>
>John Baker
>
FWIW, the Catholic football (= soccer) team in Glasgow is the Celtic
(not the Celts, and not a plural noun), pronounced [KEL-tIk].  (The
Protestant team is the Rangers.)

larry