How did Celtic's founding fathers manage to get people to pronounce the name as Sel-tic rather than Keltic?

Before they were founded, no such pronunciation existed as far as I'm aware. Everyone knew the word as "Keltic", so do you think it was difficult to have the name known as "Sell-tick"? And what was the thinking behind this anyway? It's something I've never seen mentioned in any Celtic history book.





Now, virtually every sports club with "Celtic" in their name have it pronounced the same way. The original Celtic started a bit of a trend!

How did Celtic's founding fathers manage to get people to pronounce the name as Sel-tic rather than Keltic?
The words "Celt" and "Celtic" were not used in the English language until the 1700s, and both pronunciations are acceptable, though the word itself derives from the Greek "Keltoi", which makes the hard pronunciation more historical. It then became "Celtus" in Latin.





"Celtic" has been pronounced both ways since the Latin language first started using the "soft c". In the Latin of the Roman empire, the letter C was always pronounced as a K and never as an S, being exactly equivalent to the Greek kappa. After the Catholic Church took over the empire, pronunciation began to change. English inherited both ways to pronounce a letter C, depending partially on position in the word and partially on local dialect.





There is little evidence that the peoples now referred to as Celtic ever called themselves such before the 1700s, and there is no Celtic word (in Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, Cornish, etc) that explicitly sounds like or means "Celtic".
Reply:A B C D not A B K D.


Perhaps it is better to ask "Why Keltic?"