Heard on tonight's CSI: standard English "Lord" > "Lard"

[Wilson Gray]

Spoken by an actor who is a black native of Saint Louis of my age:

"_Lard_  [lOrd] have mercy!"

-Wilson

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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