Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for September 23, 2010
Transcript:
tyr: I gotta say, you do't look like a warrior. woman: Well, my body was sculpted from stone...but my true spirit is that of a celtic warmaiden! I can assume that form too! *blink!* tyr: Eughhh..why would you ever do that?? woman: It'll end a bad date real fast...
Not if you’re talking about the basketball team in Boston. That’s why I spelled it with an ‘S’. A celt (with a small ‘c’ and pronounced ‘selt’) is also a type of stone axe or adze. Knowing this, I composed this limerick in my college days:
A celt (pronounced ‘s’) is an axe. A celt (pronounced ‘k’) makes attacks. You’ll insult a kelt If you call him a selt And he’ll give you some whacks with his axe.