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This castle is referenced in various books by Wm Mark Simmons and I asked him about pronunciation.
His reply, snipped somewhat for length, was:
"Cséjthe" is the alternate name/designation for Cachtice. Czech versus the
Slovakian designation for the Bathory holdings.
As I've mentioned in the books, CHAY-TAY is the proper pronunciation for the
former.
Here's an explanation of the latter by Wildcat Dianne from the TravelSense
Community: "Slovakian is part of the Western Slavonic language group and is
a difficult language to master due to its many accents and different
pronounciations. It is similar to Czech and Russian in sound. It took me
quite some time to master the pronounciation of the name of the town of
Cachtice. There is an accent above the first "C," and it sounds like "Ch."
The "ch" in the middle is pronounced with a hard "kh" and you sound like you
are ready to spit or hiss like a cat. So the correct pronounciation of the
village and castle of Cachtice is: CHA-KHU-TITZA…"
His protagonist is one "Christopher Cséjthe" who is descended from Erzsébet Báthory, hence the discussion of the relationship of names.
The village of Csejte( lpronounced like the word Czech-Czeite) was the part of Hungary, owned by also the famous hungarian Báthory- Nádasdy family.
After the treathy of Trianon became the part of Czech-Slovakia, than later part of the new Slovakian Republic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.121.47.110 (talk) 16:51, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
