Fact Check: 2022 Recap New Year's Eve Special

1. Pronunciation of cornucopia - which one is the yinzer pronunciation?

• Chris said "corn-yoo-koe-pee-ya."  - this is the correct pronunciation. Therefore, Bethany's pronunciation "corn-a-koe-pee-ya" is the 'yinzer' pronunciation.

2. Is Sweden homogenous? 

• Historically, Sweden has been very homogenous, though over the past few decades, immigration increased a lot.  In the 1990s, Sweden began allowing large-scale asylum-based immigration, a trend that sped up following the Arab Spring protests.  Now a lot of white Swedes are in opposition to non-white and non-Western immigration.  

• The population of Sweden is 10.6 million. 

3. Pronunciation of Celtic 

• The etymology of the noun Celt—from which the adjective Celtic is derived—is straightforward. It's a 16th-century borrowing of the French word Celte, which itself is from Latin Celta, the singular of Celtae, which is the name for a member of an early Indo-European people from antiquity who spread over much of Europe from the British Isles and Spain to Asia Minor. The Latin name is derived from Greek Keltoi, and both the Latin and Greek words referred to the Gauls, the Celtic people who occupied the region that is now France and Belgium. Following its French and Latin predecessors, early pronunciation of Celt was actually \SELT\. (In French and Latin, the 'c' is pronounced \s\, as in Latin century.) The pronunciation \KELT\ started being heard as early as the 18th century, which, in time, ushered in the variant spelling Kelt. The variants were introduced by language and history academics who believed that the pronunciation of Celt should reflect the initial \k\ sound in the ancient Greek Keltoi and the Classical Latin Celtae.This was because prior to the middle ages, the letter 'c' in Latin was pronounced \k\.