  "BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive 'to borrow. ' Usage: 'My brother bard my pickup truck. '" urlLink [Source] That is extreme for a learner, but I have in the past taught my students the phonetic way of saying a word, while trying to get them to forget the way it's written.
That's because people who have difficulties hearing right resort to the written word, and pronounce it the way they would have in their mother tongue. Thus beard, here in France, would sound more like /bi: rd/. Nobody has bard this technique from me, yet. You can bar it if you'd like. This is interesting... From urlLink On English . I like this site a lot man, this is good. 
