How to know if you are Celtic?

[Fiddlers Green]

I am sorry, but every time I see p and q Celt... I just can't help but think pint and quart, as in, mind your Ps and Qs. sweatdrop  

[Aino Ailill]

Fiddlers Green

I am sorry, but every time I see p and q Celt... I just can't help but think pint and quart, as in, mind your Ps and Qs. sweatdrop

I think of 'please and thank you.' As in 'pease and ank-kyew' as two little boys I babysit say it.  

[CuAnnan]

Fiddlers Green

I am sorry, but every time I see p and q Celt... I just can't help but think pint and quart, as in, mind your Ps and Qs. sweatdrop

Pint and quart?  

[Cranium Squirrel]

CuAnnan

Pint and quart?

One of the supposed origins of the expression mind your ps and qs, Cu. Tavernkeeps to their progressively drunker patrons, back in the seventeeth century or so - "Mind your pints and quarts", as in "watch how much you're drinking, because I'm totally going to cut you off after a point" biggrin  

[Ainwyn]

Byaggha

CuAnnan

Pint and quart?

One of the supposed origins of the expression mind your ps and qs, Cu. Tavernkeeps to their progressively drunker patrons, back in the seventeeth century or so - "Mind your pints and quarts", as in "watch how much you're drinking, because I'm totally going to cut you off after a point" biggrin

Wow, that's awesome! New thing learned for the day!

I'd always heard that the P and Q distinction came from the mac and 'ap difference.  

[CuAnnan]

Byaggha

CuAnnan

Pint and quart?

One of the supposed origins of the expression mind your ps and qs, Cu. Tavernkeeps to their progressively drunker patrons, back in the seventeeth century or so - "Mind your pints and quarts", as in "watch how much you're drinking, because I'm totally going to cut you off after a point" biggrin

I'd heard it came from the printing press, because it was easy to mistake a p and a q.  

[CuAnnan]

Ainwyn

Byaggha

CuAnnan

Pint and quart?

One of the supposed origins of the expression mind your ps and qs, Cu. Tavernkeeps to their progressively drunker patrons, back in the seventeeth century or so - "Mind your pints and quarts", as in "watch how much you're drinking, because I'm totally going to cut you off after a point" biggrin

Wow, that's awesome! New thing learned for the day!

I'd always heard that the P and Q distinction came from the mac and 'ap difference.

They're just another example. It's not one word, it's the words that they share that are different from the original (I believe) Q based proto-Celtic  

[Aino Ailill]

CuAnnan

Byaggha

CuAnnan

Pint and quart?

One of the supposed origins of the expression mind your ps and qs, Cu. Tavernkeeps to their progressively drunker patrons, back in the seventeeth century or so - "Mind your pints and quarts", as in "watch how much you're drinking, because I'm totally going to cut you off after a point" biggrin

I'd heard it came from the printing press, because it was easy to mistake a p and a q.

Easy to mistake them when learning to write, too. That, and also ds and bs. I had a helluva a time with the latter.  

[Cranium Squirrel]

CuAnnan

I'd heard it came from the printing press, because it was easy to mistake a p and a q.

Mm, I did say it was one of the supposed origins - I've heard about a half dozen. xd

I'm not sure anyone knows where it came from anymore. I do like that printing press one though. 3nodding  

[Fiddlers Green]

Byaggha

CuAnnan

Pint and quart?

One of the supposed origins of the expression mind your ps and qs, Cu. Tavernkeeps to their progressively drunker patrons, back in the seventeeth century or so - "Mind your pints and quarts", as in "watch how much you're drinking, because I'm totally going to cut you off after a point" biggrin

As I recall, in the U.S., sailours could defer their tab if their ship had made arrangement with certain bars. Such that, rather than paying at the bar, the innkeep would just take the ledger to the ship's paymaster and take it directly from there.  

[CuAnnan]

Byaggha

CuAnnan

I'd heard it came from the printing press, because it was easy to mistake a p and a q.

Mm, I did say it was one of the supposed origins - I've heard about a half dozen. xd

I'm not sure anyone knows where it came from anymore. I do like that printing press one though. 3nodding

I was just adding the one I'd heard (on QI).  

[Doc Dillamond]

if you are irish ,scottish, welsh or english than tecnicly you have celtic in you  

[Ainwyn]

gemherbal

if you are irish ,scottish, welsh or english than tecnicly you have celtic in you

Um, yeah, I'd like to see what would happen if someone who's English tells someone who's Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, Cornish or Manx (?) that they're "Celtic". I wonder if the reaction would be worse or similar to when it's said by an American.

@ Cu - that makes sense, thanks!  

[whiporwill-o]

gemherbal

if you are irish ,scottish, welsh or english than tecnicly you have celtic in you

i have a fair amount of irish blood running through my veins, but to my knowledge i am not celtic as a do not speak the language.

(can anyone actually, for the sake of arguement, 'be' celtic or would you just say one does/n't speak celtic. for future reference so i don't offend anyone.)  

[whiporwill-o]

Aino Ailill

CuAnnan

Byaggha

CuAnnan

Pint and quart?

One of the supposed origins of the expression mind your ps and qs, Cu. Tavernkeeps to their progressively drunker patrons, back in the seventeeth century or so - "Mind your pints and quarts", as in "watch how much you're drinking, because I'm totally going to cut you off after a point" biggrin

I'd heard it came from the printing press, because it was easy to mistake a p and a q.

Easy to mistake them when learning to write, too. That, and also ds and bs. I had a helluva a time with the latter.

i never had a problem getting letters backwards, but i had an issue with 'E', i always wanted to put mor than 3 horizontal lines on it, lol. my granddad had a hard time explaining that one to me, it just looked so... unfinished. xd