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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Saatchi is the Turkish word for "watchmaker." I believe the Saatchi family emigrated to England from Baghdad when the latter was still an Ottoman provincial capital (hence the Turkish family name). In the original Turkish, the pronunciation would be sah-aht-chee, or saht-chee. However, the English have a way of transmuting foreign words, incl. names, so this as far as the correct London pronunciation of Saatchi this is only a guess. Andras Riedlmayer Fine Arts Library Harvard University [log in to unmask] On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Carol LeBras wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Hello: > > Can someone on the list provide a phonetic pronunciation of "saatchi", as > in the Saatchi Collection in London? Our patron is performing/producing a > play in which there is a line about a painting in the Saatchi Collection, > and needs to know the proper pronunciation. We are guessing it is > "sat - chi" with a long "a" in "sat"? > > Thank you! > Carol LeBras > ****************************************************************************** > Carol LeBras, Fine Arts Reference/Technical Associate. Fine Arts Library, > Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 [log in to unmask] > ****************************************************************************** >