Erik Fridén wrote:

>Seriously though, I think most people would agree that lutfisk (I realise the inclusion of the E is to keep the pronunciation right in English, but it looks too silly to me)
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In Norwegian it is spelled and pronounced "lutefisk" (and also
"lutfisk"), so I guess that's where the English spelling comes from.

>"it is spelled "fårikål"
>Not in Sweden. We have the dish here as well (not as popular though),
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OK, I didn't know, but since the context here was the Norwegian national
dish...

> but thanks for the piece of linguistic info.
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No problem. :-)

Erik