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Where did the Boston Celtics get their name from? I don't mean about the actual Celts or anything like that, but how did this basketball team get their name? |
Where did the Boston Celtics get their name from? I don't mean about the actual Celts or anything like that, but how did this basketball team get their name? |
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My predecessor on this page, I imagine it's at least partly related to the Irish population in Boston. |
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How is their name pronounced? Irish people and Welsh people tend to produce the adjective as /kɛltɪk/, because they perceive that the word isn't a Latin word, and thus shouldn't be subject to the /k/ -> /s/ mapping of the Romance languages. While the Scottish football club was named in a moment of Victorian Romance-Latin-worship, and is called /sɛltɪk/. |
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Where did the Boston Celtics get their name from? I don't mean about the actual Celts or anything like that, but how did this basketball team get their name?
My predecessor on this page, I imagine it's at least partly related to the Irish population in Boston.
How is their name pronounced? Irish people and Welsh people tend to produce the adjective as /kɛltɪk/, because they perceive that the word isn't a Latin word, and thus shouldn't be subject to the /k/ -> /s/ mapping of the Romance languages. While the Scottish football club was named in a moment of Victorian Romance-Latin-worship, and is called /sɛltɪk/.