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Why don’t we pronounce the Boston Celtics with a hard ‘C’?

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Bostonians have a notorious track record of forging their own path when it comes to pronunciations and labels.

The accent sure doesn’t do us any favors, most notably when adding R’s that shouldn’t be there onto the end of words. And we’re also at the epicenter of a region that has christened new terms such as “bubblah,” “frappe,” “jimmies,” “packie,” and “parlor.”

Thankfully, though, our trademark drawl doesn’t severely reshuffle our pronunciation of the Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, or Celtics.

But what about the start of the word “Celtics”?

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