A method of utterance, often used in their sermons by Primitive Baptist preachers,
in which the sound "ah" occurs at the end of each breath pause, and the taking of fresh breath is intentionally made audible.Also
holy whine
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Also described in
chapter about "the mountain people" in a 1918 bookput out by the Home Mission Board of the SBC!
"In many remote sections the preachers in speaking still affect...the 'holy whine'....many of the older mountain church members regard this method of delivery by the preacher as a hallmark of downright earnestness"
"A mountain woman who had been brought up under the recurrent sermonic 'a-ahs' of old Brother Jones, after hearing Dr. John A. Broadus, who was reckoned the foremost American Baptist preacher of his day, remarked: 'I'd ruther hear Brother Jones...'."
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