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

[David Bowie]

From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>

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

> "_Lard_  [lOrd] have mercy!"

I have a recording from between 2000 and 2002 (i'd have to check for the
exact date) of an upper-middle-class male from the northern end of
Utah's Wasatch Front, then in his late 70s, in a formal semi-scripted
situation saying "on the [kOr], uh, [kar]ner", with some
self-repair-type stress on the first syllable of "carner".

If it's a part of your native variety, it's really *there*, you know?

--
David Bowie                               University of Central Florida
     Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
     house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
     chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.

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