VARDY

PRONUNCIATION: (VAHR-dee)

MEANING: noun: Judgment or opinion.

ETYMOLOGY: A dialect variant of verdit, from verdict, from Anglo-Norman ver (true) + dit (statement, speech), from dicere (to say). Ultimately from the Indo-European root deik- (to show, to pronounce solemnly), which also gave us judge, verdict, vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, paradigm, interdict, fatidic, diktat, retrodiction, and interdigitate. Earliest documented use: 1738.
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PARDY - what you do when you break it

VERDY - a green opera composer

BARDY - Shakespearean
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[Anu added:
...this shortening (or respelling of a word based on its pronunciation) happens more often than you might think. Chances are you already use such words without a second thought. Examples: ornery (from ordinary), raiment (from arrayment), and donut (from doughnut).

An extreme example of this process of linguistic evolution is the transition of eleëmosynary to the present-day alms.]