http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2008/06/seo-headlines-17/ SEO and Marketing Blog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:43:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2008/06/seo-headlines-17/comment-page-1/#comment-17637 Jordan McCollum Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:11:17 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog-test/2008/06/seo-headlines-17/#comment-17637 <p>Susan--from the venerable source, Wikipedia: "Although the word originated in an early Continental Celtic language, it comes to us from Greek (Keltoi), where it is spelled with a kappa; thus is the original pronunciation. This was borrowed into Latin (Celtae), where it was likewise pronounced. However in Medieval Latin, the letter , originally pronounced /k/, shifted to /s/, a process known as palatalization, and many words and names borrowed from Latin into English after this sound shift are pronounced this way: centre, Cicero, et cetera. Thus /s/ is the inherited pronunciation in English." </p> Susan–from the venerable source, Wikipedia:
“Although the word originated in an early Continental Celtic language, it comes to us from Greek (Keltoi), where it is spelled with a kappa; thus is the original pronunciation. This was borrowed into Latin (Celtae), where it was likewise pronounced. However in Medieval Latin, the letter , originally pronounced /k/, shifted to /s/, a process known as palatalization, and many words and names borrowed from Latin into English after this sound shift are pronounced this way: centre, Cicero, et cetera. Thus /s/ is the inherited pronunciation in English.”

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