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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That data also indicates men may have employed vocal fry more than women in the recent past. To fill in some of these research ...

It turns out vocal fry, what the Internet is reporting as a new linguistic trend "creeping" into women's speech isn't much of a trend at all. A writeup of the research describes the speech pattern as ...

Language Log’s post debunking the theory that vocal fry is a “new” trend. Linguist blogger Josef Fruehwald’s post on vocal fry. Slate’s June Thomas on editing Christopher Hitchens. Slate’s Christopher ...