"earl" for "oil"

[W Brewer]

R.I.P., Floyd D. Boyd (ode to a dead parakeet)
Jonathan Lighter wrote: <<<What, they don't make kids memorize poetry
anymore?>>>
WB: Put this in yer canon.  I once had a boid named Floyd / who annerred me
no end with his toids. / On his waterer he?d hop / den gaily would plop /Dat
doity old boid named Floyd.

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