gok

• “He proceeds until he reaches an empty hole, when a situation has arisen which is called gok -- that is to say, he must stop, leaving his stone there.”

  Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917

• “From that point on, I've always used 中國 and "tiong-gok" in Taiwanese when referring to China.”

  Taipei Times Channels Me

• ““This one is Har gau—steamed shrimp dumplings in rice flour wrappers—and this is Caa siu baau—steamed barbecued pork buns—and we also have Cheun gyun, fried spring rolls, and Wu gok, yam puffs.””

  Simon & Schuster: Dear Pen Pal

• “Niece #2 can pronounce "kau kau" well now... before it was just 'gok gok.”

  Archive 2008-08-24

• “He is just about to ask her to repeat herself when, ‘Yie vant yar gok!’ she screams louder.”

  Simon & Schuster: How To Kill Your Boyfriend (In Ten Easy Steps)

• “He has a strange dream, where the Gypsy woman is laughing triumphantly, saying, ‘Yie got yar gok!’”

  Simon & Schuster: How To Kill Your Boyfriend (In Ten Easy Steps)

• “He can hardly believe his ears; and of course, her accent is so heavy that it sounds like, ‘Yie vant yar gok!’”

  Simon & Schuster: How To Kill Your Boyfriend (In Ten Easy Steps)

• “There isn't any single English consensus on how to pronounce Van Gogh - most English nationals say "van goff", in my experience, and I've heard of people who say "van gok".”

  languagehat.com: ON NOT SPEAKING WELL.

• “His adversary now begins on his side wherever he likes, proceeding in the same way, from right to left, until he reaches an empty hole, which makes him gok, and he has to stop.”

  Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917

• “The rest is as it was given to me by Noel Josephs, or _Chi gatch gok_, the”

  Algonquin Legends of New England

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