Everything I've heard suggests that the convention is to say "keltic" when referring to the various cultures or music, but "seltic" when referring to any kind of sports team. I've also heard more than once that whoever first wrote the word down in english would have saved everyone a lot of headache if he had spelled it with a "k" instead of a "c".
My old bagpipe teacher, Jack Cunningham, gave me a really dirty look when I pronounced it Keltic. It's Seltic! he said. And that was the end of that!
Jack is a native Scot, who used to play the pipes at The Edinburgh Castle, a San Francisco pub.
He also appeared as the piper in the Mike Meyers movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer." If you ever saw him, you'd remember.
Chuck
My name is Jack Roberts, but it's pronounced Strebor Kcaj.
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
Im a Scotsman it's Celtic (k) not Celtic with an (S) thats the football team
Here's how the Germans say it. They sometimes know what's up.
keltisch
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