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the c word
Aug 28, 2012, 16:45
I won't be using any four-letter words in this public forum!

No, I was only being deliberately cheeky, referring to using the k instead of the c in the word 'celtic' - as pointed out by my conversational partner to be relegated to some european football teams - and because the k word provides more 'depth' in its archaeological context, as in 'more ancestral', more related to the IE than what we believe to be the celts in their traditional popular guise. Also, and I think, quite rightly, the k word was used as such in the Modern Antiquarian all those years ago.

It's just a linguistic protocol so as to detach oneself from the general context of the word and/or to bring more ambiguity to its significance.

In other words, to use another c word, I haven't a clue.
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