I m fine with Celtic culture not being monolithic but if the roundhouse culture was across Britain all of it should be included or none To me it make more sense to think of the Celts as being loosely linked with distinctive local variations The areas left white later became Norse territory but up to the time of the Picts the archaeology indicates a shared culture with more southerly areas Similarly the Pictish language is unknown but their territory included much more of Scotland down near to the Forth and Clyde Many scholars seem to think they had a Brythonic Celtic language perhaps differing from the Brythonic spoken in Scotland south of the Pictish territory it s an interestingly untidy period This is anything but scientific but common French imagery about Gaul has their house round rather than rectangular We associate the rectangular shape more commonly with the Germanic or Norse style of building then again Celts ang Vikings may have had more in common than many usually guess Pronunciation again I removed this sentence Becuase it is not an Enlish invented word a pronunciation with s should not be accepted Aside from its spelling errors this sentence is prescriptivist Wikipedia doesn t tell people what to do Furthermore the conclusion does not follow the premise We use words and names all the time that are from foreign languages but are pronounced like English words For example we pronounce wiener as weener not veener We say Seezer instead of Kay sahr for Caesar In fact very few words are English invented and a great many words we used are neither spelled nor pronounced the way they originally were What makes Celt so different Personally I think both pronunciations are valid It s a POV issue so Wikipedia has no business stating one way or the other From a language point of view both pronunciations are valid in English c as an initial consonant with s sound has precedent in the English language The k sound at the beginning of Celt comes from the original Greek and this pronunciation was notably revived along with the romantic revival of Celticity beginning in the 18th century in western Europe then continuing on to the present So the Boston folk are saying it correctly but in a particular context The descriptivist way of looking at this problem is that both are valid but the two pronunciations are begining to be appropriate according to context k when referring to Celtic peoples languages nations s when referring to the sports teams on both sides of the Atlantic and so on Being on the side of the prescriptivists myself this makes my teeth grind a bit but such is life I too am a prescriptivist and support the soft C sound again because of our origin of the word The ultimate origin notwithstanding we got our word from the French language Historically the k pronunciation was only countenanced when actually spelling the word with a k I understand that language evolves over time but the short time this has been common does not lend sufficient weight to it as a proper pronunciation I m considering mentally modifying it to a permanent k spelling so I can stop people from correcting me in day to day speech See The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations Charles Herrington Elster Subbie Dennis Hughes Apparently no urbanisation I leapt in straight away when I read this Has the author never heard of Oppida The one closest to me being Manching in southern Bavaria and was apparently as big as 380 ha and probably well fortified This was definitely more than a hill fort I think it had even a proper street grid If this bugs people I m sorry It s hard to read an article when somone has a thousand links going through It s a good one though Population Genetics I added this section on 29 November 2005 It seemed to be lacking in the piece about Celt or not Sorry for not logging in as I am new to Wikipedia but rather than remain anon My name is Richard Here is the section for the discussion board Population Genetics With the information gathered recently by population genetics it is becoming more clear that old ideas of largescale replacements by newer invaders