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I believe what happened is, at some point in the past we used the soft-c (I guess this is when all the sports teams were named). But more recently it was switch
by bee_rider 2y ago
I believe what happened is, at some point in the past we used the soft-c (I guess this is when all the sports teams were named). But more recently it was switched to hard-c, to reflect the Greek origin of the word.
- ttyprintk 2y agoI think that’s right: from 300 AD to 1700, nobody used the word. Medieval Latin dominated in the meantime, and so preferred a soft c in Celtae without an academic to insist on the k in Keltoi.