How strange. I just today received a copy of a new book I had ordered, called “Hex, The Full Story”, by Ryan B. Hayward and Bjorne Toft, which contains a lot about Piet Hein, the inventor of hex, and also Soma Cubes and Grooks. It was here I first learned that Grooks was Gruks in Danish. And the same day, I get this email about pronouncing “gruks”. The book seems very good at first skimming, with a lot about Hein as well as the games. (Toft also contributed to a book on Piet Hein published in 2015, in Danish. Much of his research for both that book and “Hex” was done at Stanford, where I met him.) Stan Isaacs Sent from my iPad

On Jun 21, 2019, at 1:10 PM, Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net> wrote:

To my surprise, I managed to find an online Danish dictionary that lets you hear the word:

https://da.forvo.com/search/gruk/da/

Turn on your speakers, and click on the hollow blue triangle immediately to the left of the word "gruk".

Tom

James Propp writes:

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How is the work "grook" (coined by Piet Hein) supposed to be pronounced?

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grook, it's spelled "gruk" in Danish, and http://www.pronunciationguide.info/Danish.html says that a Danish "u" is pronounced like the "u" in the American word "put", so I'm guessing that "grook" rhymes with "book" and not "spook".

Am I right?

Thanks,

Jim Propp

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