bredren

James began locking himself in his bedroom and tape-recording his efforts to sound masculine, repeating words like “bredren” and “boss.”

Maybe I could work them into a story of out "cullud bredren."

Bredren and sisters, is der a man or a woman in de soun' o' my voice as 'ould 'cept his free papers on de terms as Brudder Walley offers—at de price of a brudder's life an' a sister's happiness?

"My bredren, I want to raise cotton, and I'm gwine."

Like one who in the mud is tightly stuck, Or one nonplussed, astonished, thunderstruck, The preacher looked severely on the pews, And rubbed his hair to know what words to use: "Bredren," said he, "dis word I hab to say; De preacher can't be bothered in dis way; For, if he is, it's jest as like as not, Our whole theology will be upsot."