Etymology

pecha kucha

Today it means: A rigid presentation format in which the speaker has exactly 20 slides to speak about, with exactly 20 seconds allocated for each slide (20×20). Full definition →

Japanese ぺちゃくちゃ
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromぺちゃくちゃ“continuously and in a lively fashion [of speech]”
  2. English todayPecha Kucha

Coined by British architect and author Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein in 2003 from onomatopoeic Japanese ぺちゃくちゃ (pechakucha, “continuously and in a lively fashion [of speech]”, adverb).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.