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US'ns mostly never hearn of no Glasgow Seltic. Maybe in Glasgow, KY. You ever get down there, Jackie?Why yes, the Glasgow Seltics are famous state-wide. They're a high-school skittles team. Since this is not a very well-known sport, they decided they'd better do something to make themselves better known, so they began wearing Celtic costumes to the matches. Usually unnerved the other teams, too. *One of the three signs of old age is thinking it wasn't that many years ago.What are the other two, Sweetie, just so I'll know what else to watch out for? 
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In the "arty" design world it is spelled celtic, but always pronounced keltic. Not being into sports, I had never realized that the Seltics was spelled with a "C".
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Faldage said : *One of the three signs of old age is thinking it wasn't that many years ago.Then Jackie asked What are the other two, Sweetie, just so I'll know what else to watch out for?As I wrote in a private message to Faldage : First you lose your hair color (the natural color that is) Second you lose your figure Then you can't remember why they were so important. wow
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I read that the 'sel'tik' pronunciation comes from the French once
hmmm, maybe you're right about that BY. A "C" in front of an "E" is pronounced like an "S" in French. But it seems odd that the U.S. would have adopted this pronunciation from the French.
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okay, here's the shock of the day: OED gives the seltic pronunciation first, coming from French or(?) Latin.
("sEltIk, "kEltIk) [a. F. celtique or ad. L. celtic-us of the Celts.]
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OED gives the seltic pronunciation first
... confirming the classical bias tendency in so much of our cultural institutions founded on 18th & 19th c. values...?
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One of the three signs of old age is thinking it wasn't that many years ago.
What are the other two, Sweetie, just so I'll know what else to watch out for? The second one is, for men at least, forgetting to do your flies up. The third? Forgetting to undo them in the first place  
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The other option is
(ii) Hairs on the palm of your hand
(iii) looking for them!
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or like the billy goats of nursery rhyms-- hairs on your chinny, chin, chin!
I still of an age where a tweezer works!-- but i first learned about 'waxing' as a means of hair removal from my nana, who, waxed her chin every 3 days or so.
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Good Lord - and I used to think my Grandma was saying, "I had a good chinwag with my friends this week!" 
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