JonMichael Rasmus
United States
Madison
Wisconsin
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Rummy - Cube
Rummy - Cub
Rummy - Coob
Other?
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J (RBG)
Canada
Slave Lake
AB
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It's "Rummy-Cube" for us. Actually, more like "Rumm-i-cube."
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Mary Tomaszewski
United States
Kentwood
Michigan
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I say Rummy-Cube. My mother-in-law says Roomy-Cube. I think these are the only pronunciations I've heard.
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Mik Svellov
Denmark
Copenhagen N
EU
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It depends on the language you are pronouncing it in.
The original game is from Israel, so I guess we need someone who can speak Hebrew.
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Royal Flush
United States
Troutdale
Oregon
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Rummy-Cub. As does my entire family..
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Lacombe
Louisiana
It was a dark and stormy night.
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Actually... none of the above: Rum-"schwa"-kub.
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rummy-kup
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Jeb Adams
United States
Agoura Hills
California
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Quote: It depends on the language you are pronouncing it in.
The original game is from Israel, so I guess we need someone who can speak Hebrew.
I saw it spelled thusly: (Your browser may not display this)
רומיקוב
Without punctuation, most Israelis would guess that as "ROH-mee-KOHB" where the "R" is trilled (gutteral).
HOWEVER, everyone in Israel plays this game and they universally pronounce it "REH-mee", and if there was any question as to whether one was referring to the tile version or the card version, they would say, "KOO-bee-YOHT REH-mee" for the tiles. My guess is that the card game "Rummy" was popular in Israel, but Modern Hebrew does not have a short-u sound ("uh"), so folks called it "REH-mee." Once the tile game was invented and needed to be exported back to the roman alphabet-using-world, it got its "Rummy" roots back with that "u" and they tacked on the KUB because it's cute and marketable. Most likely "Rummy Koob" in the marketing offices.
In my house, it was "RummyCube" until we started speaking more Hebrew.
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Kunnagh Scott
England
Bristol
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We play this at a friend's house, and he always pronounces it Rum-Nee-Cub, but only because it really annoys his wife...
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Dan Crawford
United States
Washington
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Rummy cube. That was the way friends who play it called it.
Recently I ran into other folks who call it rummy cub. I wonder what's the right way?
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Larry Kruger
United States
Germantown
Wisconsin
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The 1998 Pressmen rules for 'The Original Rummicub(R)' lists the following under the game title:
(Rummy-Cube)
And that is the rest of the story.
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Scot Trescot
United States
Seattle
Washington
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I grew up with my family saying Rummy-cube. Then I met my wife who says Rummy-cub. When we bought a new copy, we noticed (as Larry mentions above) that the box says it is pronoucned "Rummy-cube". So there it is - at least for US editions.
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David Me
United States
Earth
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consonat-vowel-consonant usually doesn't have a long vowel, so Rummikub, though I always feel in error bec everyone I know pronounces it Rummikube...maybe because they think the flat tiles are somehow like CUBES?
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Patrick Carroll
United States
Carver
Minnesota
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." (GK Chesterton)
"That's how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)
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It's my mother-in-law's favorite game, and she calls it "tile rummy."
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Harold Ogle
United States
California
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It's clearly written as "Rummy Cub", and the following advertisement supports this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_HmeP60AGs
I mean, point out any other situation in the English language where any consonant, followed by "ub" would be pronounced with a long vowel sound...bub, cub, gub, hub, lub, nub, pub, rub, sub, tub...
I have the 1995 rules of the Pressman version (strangely enough, the box is copyright 1997), and there is no mention of the pronunciation. Online, you can find a 1998 version of the Pressman rules, which are identical except for the pedantic addition of the pronunciation (in bold, no less): http://www.pressmantoy.com/instructions/instruct_rummikub.ht...
So, we have a situation where the earlier official materials present the title as an English speaker would read the word Rummikub, but more recent materials provide a weird pronunciation, as if there was a silent "E" on the end of the word.
The impression I have - which is just a guess based on other experiences - is that the Pressman company is surrendering to popular practice in the US market, acknowledging the fact that most people in the US bizarrely say "Rummy Cube" (possibly an indicator of the diminishing education standards in the country), in much the same way as someone who actually pronounces "library" or "February" correctly might get ridiculed in some circles.
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Gene Warren
United States
Redwood City
California
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Who pronounces "library" "libary?"
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On the back of the 1980 box, (with 1987 instructions), it clearly states..." Rummikub, ( Rummy-cube)...long u symbol....
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