How do you pronounce "Celtic"?
If you're a basketball fan, you probably say "Seltic." If you study history or linguistics, you probably say "Keltic." So who's right?
Both pronunciations are in the dictionary, but they have different histories. The original Greek word used a hard K sound. But English got the word from French, where is starts with the S sound.
For centuries in English, the S pronunciation dominated — which is how Boston's basketball team got its name in 1946. 1/2
What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says.
Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’.
The State Department has urged all Americans in the Middle East to leave immediately, but U.S. embassies in the region are telling people trying to flee that they are on their own.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207259/us-embassies-tell-americans-middle-east-theyre
"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after.”
Sahar Delijani
https://evergreenreview.com/read/an-interview-with-sahar-delijani/
Mignon Fogarty
Tjeerd Royaards
JA Westenberg
Yogthos
Alison Creekside
Nanoraptor
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Peter Gleick