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It depends on what one means by the term Celt or Celtic. For linguists, the term Celts means speakers of one of the Celtic languages, either living (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton) or extinct (Cornish, Gaulish, Celtiberian, Lepontic, Galatian). These languages are or were located in the British Isles, northern Italy, France, Belgium, and the Iberian peninsula. Galatian was the one outlier in Asia Minor, but there is a controversy about whether the Celts there immigrated from west to east or east to west. Celt as an ethnic term is one used (borrowed or coined) by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and though based on contact with actual people, who may or may not have spoken a Celtic language, soon become something of a synonym for barbarian. The term in archeology is associated with a wide-spread (in Europe that is) collection of cultural artifacts (La Tène, Hallstatt, etc.) that may or may not have been produced by Celtic-speaking peoples. It is this identification of certain iron-age and bronze-age cultures that is coming under scrutiny in the books I mentioned in my previous posting to this thread.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Thanks ZM for bringing up the words "La Tène" and "Hallstatt" . Brings back our impressive Art history teacher:the great Mrs. Giacometti. Who took us from there through the ages of European Art. Juggling casually with migrating populations. She always wore a turban. What it stood for or hid none of us ever knew. Jokes and guesses.  She motherly invited first year male students who looked interesting and slightly underfed to plates of oatmeal porridge. ( No, let the dirty mind lobes sleep), that's all there was to it. Oatmeal must be good, they got remarkably good marks. (I've noted your book recommends)
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After a lifetime of using "normal" scissors left-handedly, I bought left-handed ones and found I couldn't use them. I was too ingrained in the weird (and painful) twisted way one needs to hold "normal" ones.
I was the only 'corrie-fisted' one in our church badminton club, so although they were accustomed to the different style of a left-hander, I wasn't. Until the team began visiting other clubs and I met my first 'cack-handed' opponent and was demolished.
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I bought left-handed ones and found I couldn't use them Oh, dear. [shaking head e]
You're in Scotland? Cool, and welcome aBoard! Wave to jmh up (down? over?) in Edinburgh for me.
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