Celtic

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The words Celt and Celtic can have a variety of meanings.

Sometimes a pronunciation distinction is maintained - see Pronunciation of Celtic. The following may be pronounced either /kelt(ik)/ or /selt(ik)/, but in academic use there is a clear preference for /kelt(ik)/:

• Celt, European Celtic people, either ancient or Modern Celts
• Celtic art, cultural art that avoids straight lines and only occasionally uses symmetry, or knotwork that is typically recognizable by interlocking lines and figures
• Celtic calendar
• Celtic Christianity
• Celtic Congress seeks to promote the Celtic languages in the Celtic nations.
• Celtic Crusaders Wales' only professional rugby league side.
• Celtic horoscope
• Celtic languages, descending from the Proto-Celtic language, spoken by these people and their modern descendants
• Celtic law
• Celtic League (political organisation)
• Celtic League (rugby union)
• Celtic Lenses, a line of lower priced SLR lenses offered by Minolta in the 1970s and 80s
• Celtic music, referring to folk music that originated from "Celtic" cultures
• Celtic mythology, Celtic polytheism, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism and a List of Celtic deities
• Celtic nations Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany
• Celtic Sea
• Celtic Studies, an academic discipline associated with the study of Celtic language, history and culture
• Celtiberians for a Celtic people on the Iberian peninsula
• Celtici, Celts from ancient Lusitania (modern day Portugal)
• Pan-Celticism
• Celtic (water), a bottled water from France
• RMS Celtic (1901), a White Star Line ship
• SS Celtic (1872), a White Star Line ship

The following should only be pronounced /selt(ik)/:

• Belfast Celtic former Irish/Northern Irish football team
• Bloemfontein Celtic
• Boston Celtics professional basketball team in the U.S.A.
• Celtic F.C. of Glasgow, Scotland (football team)
• Donegal Celtic Northern Irish football team
• Farsley Celtic A.F.C. of Farsley (near Leeds), West Yorkshire, England
• Lurgan Celtic Football Club of Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
• Oban Celtic a shinty club from Oban, Scotland
• Stalybridge Celtic F.C. of Stalybridge (near Manchester), England
• Dewsbury Celtic Rugby League team of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
• Celt (tool), a type of stone tool

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