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To: muir_redwoods

But it is not:

http://medievalscotland.org/postings/kelticseltic.shtml


38 posted on 10/19/2013 4:06:14 PM PDT by Sparky1776
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To: Sparky1776

In today’s English, it’s pronounced Kelt. It may once have been differently pronounced but most words were pronounced differently long ago. To quote Blake (from memory, so...)

“A horse misued upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood”

That rhymed 200 years ago.


43 posted on 10/19/2013 4:20:15 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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