Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130929130231/@comment-6192846-20141226044352

I've tried looking it up and the closest search result that comes up for me is "Curtice Lake" (カーティスレイク). I agree, it'd be interesting to see if it matches up (and I think the only potential different would be a lack of a stress on the "a" sound, making it カチェス).

As far as カーチェス, it is true that the stress is commonly used to mimmick a "ar", "er", or "ur" sound, like how Taan makes "Turn". We also had Martius which also had the "ch" turn into a "t" sound. It sounds odd to me, but it is what it is.

Curtess is the best deduction I can make, given how the "e" sound is a very minor change overall to the name of Curtis/Curtiss, considering it just changes the "i" to said "e" sound.

Granted, we don't know what mothy is intended with this name, other than its Japanese spelling/pronunciation to be derived from KAITO,  so I am not sure how likely using the obscure name of a US lake would be vs a (I'd say) obscure real person's name.

So for me, it comes down to whether or not the close similarity to Curtis/Curtiss is strong enough to believe mothy took the name from there or just happened to make up a similar name by coincidence.

Given he chose rather simple ways of "western namizing" Vocaloid names (Lukana, Mikulia, Gumina) but had more radical ways of doing it when there was specific rl name or purpose in mind (Maylis), I feel Kachess would fall in the same boat.

It's a really tough situation imo.