Jarlsberg cheese (1966)

[Beverly Flanigan]

Jarlsberg is indeed good, and I do pronounce it with 'y'.  But why on earth
should the word go into the OED???

At 04:00 AM 3/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear listers,
>
>See Barry Popik's post on this, please.  It is lexical "detective work" of
>the highest order, and just about nails everything down that needs to be
>nailed down, except perhaps for the name of the Norwegian (I am guessing)
>who thought up the idea for a new manufacturable cheese product that looks
>like "Swiss cheese" but is more suited to the American palate, dubbed it
>"Jarlsberg", and went on to make millions.  But the background story is
>fascinating, and the dating of the evidence, tied to US trademark records,
>provides a terminus that would be difficult to antedate, except from private
>corporate records.
>
>One additional bit -- how do Americans pronounce "Jarlsberg"?  With the
>initial sound like that of an initial Y, or like that of an initial J?  I
>dunno.
>
>Frank Abate