Declan--make that people who don't even speak everyday Gaelic, who likely live in England or the US, to come in with examples to disprove the rule. ;-)

I agree--neither English or Gaeilge speakers use the soft C in the pronounciation of the words Celt and Celtic in Ireland, which I said quite some time ago.

Funny innit, how someone asks a seemingly innocent question about how to pronouce something so that when they go to the pub, they don't feel like an idiot for mispronouncing something, and they get linguistic tomes and controversy as a response?