What is a Bard?

13/06/2020 4 min Temporada 2 Episodio 1

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In search for bards among us. #history #around_us. Famous confusion in pronouncing "Celt".


While the early pronunciation was with an /s/ sound, reflecting its nearest origin in French, the modern standard is a hard "c" sound like /k/. This is because language historians desired the word to better reflect its Greek and Classical Latin origins. Both pronunciation exists. \SELT\ has been heard for many centuries; \KELT\, just a few.

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